shifting
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As a result, cells lose what scientists call metabolic plasticity, their ability to rapidly adapt to shifting energy demands.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
He was up against shifting policy, U.S. travel bans, and, in one case, an ongoing war with a country in the World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
He played recordings of prison calls between Grossman and her husband in which they discussed a Coinbase wallet with her bitcoin and another in which they discussed shifting assets to their children after the crash.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Pushkar Raj Sabharwal's comments to the BBC come months after he rejected some media reports that suggested investigators were shifting focus to his son, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the senior pilot in the cockpit.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
A warm breeze wafts through the open windows behind my parents, shifting the white cotton curtains.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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