shifts
Example Sentences
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The Earth’s center of mass wanders as ice sheets melt and water shifts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Staff at a Kent hospital have said that they pick up shifts in pubs to balance cost pressures caused by increased parking charges and wage cuts.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The fall in office occupancy has been spurred by permanent shifts to remote work, interest rate spikes and a trend of companies moving into smaller, more high-end buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Throughout July, the most extreme shifts in investor positioning were registered in Asia.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 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
