How to Use shut-in in a Sentence
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Her brother, Casey (Spike Fearn), is an agoraphobic shut-in failing to confront his mounting mental-health crises.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2025
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Without such intervention, low oil prices will spur demand and will also force production shut-ins across non-OPEC producers, helping to stabilize prices, according to the bank.
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Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
24 Nov. 2025
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Visitors should pair the shut-ins with a stop at Elephant Rocks State Park, about a 15-minute drive away, which gets its name from a series of enormous pink granite boulders that are said to resemble circus elephants standing trunk to tail.
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Nicholas Derenzo,
AFAR Media,
16 Sep. 2025
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Emphasizing creativity, Maria Lee said kids chose a variety of ways to serve from lemonade stands contributing to Texas flood victims, flower deliveries to elderly shut-ins, park cleanups and adding flags to headstones at veterans cemeteries.
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Stuart Dyos,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Sep. 2025
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Just as shut-in was the driver of a big Chevrolet Suburban, except that its 28% near-view in 2023 had not shrunk quite as much from the mere 56% view available to drivers of the body shape launched in 2000, the earliest tested.
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Ian Baker
august 21,
New Atlas,
21 Aug. 2025
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By visiting with the sick and shut-in, helping the bereaved, ministering to the incarcerated, always being willing to open the doors of Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church to more people, teaching theology to other pastors and more, Thornhill was a pastor.
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Sophia Tiedge,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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That means overcoming Ella’s hostility and bridging the divide with her uncommunicative kid brother Casey (Spike Fearn), an MIT graduate who has become an agoraphobic shut-in since his breakup with beloved girlfriend Susan (Ayo Edebiri).
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Dec. 2025
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The subsurface storage reserve acts as the ultimate shock absorber against price spike and the decay of petroleum reserves due to poorly managed well shut-in during crisis.
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Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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An abrupt shut-in causes fines migration — when tiny particles of rock and clay within the porous materials become dislodged, settle, and severely plug the pore throats near the wellbore.
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Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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But those projections rest on several assumptions, including that shut-in oil production will peak in early April and transit through the Strait of Hormuz will improve.
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Chad De Guzman,
Time,
31 Mar. 2026
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Hamad Hussain, climate and commodities economist at Capital Economics, pointed out in a separate note Monday that tankers need to fill up on gulf supplies in order for shut-in production to restart.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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Smith estimated Iran may have roughly 30 days before shoreside storage faces severe capacity constraints under current conditions, while warning that older fields or marginal wells could already be facing early shut-in pressures.
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Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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