SHYING Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

shying

verb

present participle of shy

as in flinching

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In my experience, automation becomes commercially viable not when failures disappear, but when the system is built to handle them without flinching.

— Shivansh Inamdar, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Amy Adams’ Anna Bowden — who has a complicated history with Max as his former lawyer — peeks through the curtain to spy on him, flinching as Max insists on snapping his own broken finger into place.

— Benjamin VanHoose, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026

Definition of flinching

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While uptight Elinor excels at hiding her feelings for the similarly taciturn Edward, Marianne goes wild (nearly feral, really) when new neighbor Willoughby saves her from physical injury (literally sweeping her off her feet and a wincing ankle).

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
Driver Danya Lloyd-Santiago says her wallet is wincing this Labor Day, while filling up her tank for her commute.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026

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Neither candidate reached the majority needed to win outright, forcing both campaigns to compete for a shrinking pool of undecided voters while trying to mobilize their supporters in a country deeply divided over its political future.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Demographic data expose disparities that raw numbers can obscure and show whether those gaps are growing or shrinking.

— Julie Morita, Time, 25 Oct. 2026

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