shift
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Wieladek expects that the ECB’s focus will soon shift from inflation to weakening growth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
McElligott maintains that all-important Big Tech has turned into a major headwind for markets, just as the artificial-intelligence trade is starting to undergo a shift.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
During El Nino, trade winds weaken and atmospheric patterns shift across the tropical Pacific, allowing warm waters around Indonesia to spread eastward toward South America.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
"Abandonment wasn't because the site became ecologically unsuitable in any absolute sense. Bison were still around, vegetation hadn't changed, and there was no substantive shift in fire activities," Wendt pointed out.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
A girl stationed a few lockers down pointed across the room, over the heads of the other girls readying for the shift.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Vocabulary lists containing shift
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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The ACT: The Language of the Test, List 2
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