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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a shutting" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward or unclear.
It could be used in contexts where one is referring to the act of shutting something, but it is more natural to use "a closure" or "a shutting down."
Example: "The sudden shutting of the door startled everyone in the room."
Alternatives: "a closing" or "a termination."
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More a shutting up shop than a rebranding.
Nevertheless, the closure of the forum hasn't meant a shutting down of debate – if anything it's been quite the opposite.
It would be a "rebadging exercise, rather than a shutting down," the person said, meaning that the company could put a new badge, or nametag, on the old product.
Depression is rather a shutting down of the emotive self, a fracturing of the will.
This act has been represented not only as vandalism but as a shutting down of free speech--one that has been condemned by the administration and news organs.
"I can get super internally focused and be like, 'All that matters is what I think, and I don't have to be anything for anyone else,'" she says, "and in a way, there's a shutting out of my awareness of my impact on others, if I shut that out".
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(a) Shut up.
The leader of the Republican Party wants a shut down!
The WMD emit pulsed RF signal radiation 24/7 without a shut off switch.
After Bohr, a "shut up and calculate" philosophy took over physics for decades.
The upshot will surely be new regulation at the very least, conceivably even a shut down.
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