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shifted

adjective as in transferred

adjective as in transported

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Example Sentences

She had been, he says, the backbone of their family and losing her shifted their entire emotional landscape.

So, the one and only good thing that came out of it is that it really shifted the conversation.

The new report is consistent with a great deal of research that has not yet shifted public thinking about alcohol problems.

I shifted and put the casing in my pocket, and when I did, I felt a quickening from my stomach to my jaw.

Udall shifted his emphasis to the economy in the last weeks of the campaign, but it was too late.

Then, inexplicably, he shifted to the other side that the old, the normal Tom presented generously to the new.

He shifted uneasily, while his handkerchief was kept busy mopping the perspiration from his brow.

When I shifted my position, he turned the other way quick, and coughed–that pore little gone-in cough of hisn.

Those subject to what are termed wolfy notes can be remedied or the bad notes shifted to less important ones.

The chauffeur shifted his position so as to glance behind him at the girls, the car running slowly.

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On this page you'll find 179 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shifted, such as: adapted, adjusted, aged, amended, conditioned, and deteriorated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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