shift
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But Seaport’s Goldberg argues that Cisco’s shift to design and sell systems for cloud providers came late.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
A district could improve and still be capped, or see its eligibility shift “simply because the statewide average changed,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Moves to scale up its AI ecosystem and a shift in capital expenditure toward computing infrastructure point to a faster expansion of its AI business in the medium term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Earth's gravitational pull should cause an extremely small shift in that pattern.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
For two months Mama lay unconscious on that bed, the five of us, with Nollie on the evening shift, taking turns at her side.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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He said that with those bonds now trading near face value, their valuations will be extremely sensitive even to small shifts in interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Investors are likely to stay sensitive to the possibility of faster BOJ tightening, given that some board members have pointed to global monetary shifts when considering Japan’s own policy, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
“We had cameras in our house 24 hours a day. There were two crews, 12-hour shifts each, cameras set up in every room except for bathrooms and bedrooms,” Kelly said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
By analyzing samples from adults across a wide range of ages, the team created one of the most detailed pictures yet of how genome regulation shifts as the brain grows older.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
He was working sixteen-hour shifts at the hospital, confining his blogging mainly to the hours between midnight and three in the morning.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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And this week, the Cook Political Report shifted its race rating to “toss-up.”
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
Warsh listed geopolitics as one of three things that shifted since July, and he described a reassessment of the odds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Its activity shifted back toward a more typical pattern of Strombolian eruptions, which involve periodic bursts of ash and other volcanic material.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
That has shifted Saudi Arabia’s emphasis back to Hormuz, its traditional route for exporting much of its oil.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Abby shifted her legs off the tree on the side away from shore.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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With the warm water shifting eastward across the Pacific, heavy tropical rains follow close behind—spurring ideal environmental conditions for hurricanes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
In June, digital bank Revolut said it was shifting away from its "remote-first" policy for new recruits in 2027, but for other employees that policy wouldn't change.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
As more shoppers buy the store brands, the balance of power between retailers and manufacturers keeps shifting in the retailers’ favor, analysts say.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
That could make it possible to move prevention and screening earlier and tailor interventions to an individual's biology, shifting cancer care toward stopping disease before it begins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
She looked down once, to be sure there was no one standing below who might see, before letting herself fall forward and shifting into her feathers and wings.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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