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shift

[shift] / ʃɪft /


NOUN
time served doing work
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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“I think that we have to shift it away from ideological labeling to really concrete economic ideas — you know, they call her a pothole pragmatist, the DSA does. ... That’s what we need.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Tommy Moller, a professor of political science at Stockholm University, told AFP however that he had noted a shift heading into this year's election.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Among the thousands who died in the towers on Sept. 11, 2001, were more than 70 Windows on the World workers who had clocked in for their morning shift.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

While both companies declined to elaborate on where, exactly, the arms race is headed, both describe a similar shift in how they are thinking about the problem.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

“I’m filling in a shift, but no reason to go into a hot kitchen before I have to. Thanks.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"MSF's work in Sudan is privately funded. But when funding disappears from other health services, clinics close, patients have fewer places to go, and pressure shifts to the facilities that remain, including ours."

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Young Americans are “experiencing some macroeconomic shifts that are, in a lot of ways, unprecedented,” JP Julien, a partner at McKinsey and leader of the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

The world's biggest carmakers across Europe, the United States and Japan are also facing strong competition from Chinese manufacturers, as well as the need to invest heavily as the industry shifts toward electric vehicles.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

Soon, local men were standing guard in shifts at the two entrances into town, aiming their weapons at trucks laden with freshly picked avocados and cars packed with farmhands as they demanded identity documents.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

Two of the past three shifts at work have contained a call.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But the mood has shifted from the euphoria that felt tangible when the Nasdaq was notching back-to-back records early this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

“The investor mindset shifted, and now sentiment shifts,” said Nationwide’s Hackett, pointing to heightened backlash against the data-center build-out from politicians ahead of the midterm elections, as well as from average voters.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

The Earth all but shifted on its axis following this, due to the breathtakingly bonkers discourse that followed the incident.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

Those changes shifted the balance between the number of stem cells and the neurons they generated.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

The clouds broke up into horsetails, the wind shifted to the east, and a heavy wind struck us.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

"I headed out this way hoping things might be better out in the rural areas," he said, his young granddaughter shifting impatiently in the back seat.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Malthusian models and predator-prey equations, for example, have been used to examine the spread of Australian rabbits and the shifting populations of Canadian lynxes and snowshoe hares.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

The chancellor may have thought about shifting the venue of his first major speech this morning.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Webb eschews the Wagnerian method of film scoring—dark motifs for the evil characters, bright tunes for the good ones—in favor of fluid, shifting psychological music, a forerunner of Hitchcock’s scores with Bernard Herrmann.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

All the dogs were brought back on board, in case Dog Town was destroyed by the shifting ice.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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