shift
Example Sentences
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Their brains began to look and function more like those of older mice, and their behavior reflected this shift.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
JBS has said the plant had enough workers to run a partial shift during the strike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Such a shift is vital at this moment in history, when so much of modern life is designed to ask almost nothing of us.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026
The data, instead, show a “crisis-driven liquidation by a handful of countries under severe currency pressure. It is not a structural shift away from gold reserves.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
His falcon eyes shift from me to my sister.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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