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shift

[shift] / ʃɪft /


NOUN
time served doing work
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK




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The shift was as swift as it was cold.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

The shift is changing the economics of the industry and forcing AI companies to fight harder to keep customers, report Angel Au-Yeung, Katherine Bindley and Tina Li.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Campaigners, lawyers and HR teams say cases like this highlight a shift that businesses should be paying attention to.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

“The focus is likely to shift towards exemptions, country-specific negotiations, sectoral investigations and the risk of additional tariff rounds,” he added.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

I open a drawer and shift through its contents.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

“The longer that choice is deferred, the more the demand shifts from the minister to the man above him.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

For more than a year, the 27-year-old had been working overnight shifts at a warehouse for the country's largest online retailer, Coupang.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

"We slept three hours a night and worked in shifts," she recalled.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

This could change, though, as the region’s geopolitical climate shifts.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

Workers had been sleeping at the plant, cycling in and out of the control rooms and repair teams in shifts.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Attention has now shifted to Brussels after the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution calling for an end to EU alumina exports to Russia.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Individual investors and their wealth managers shifted to other private assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

They studied patterns in the songs - how each song shifted and changed through time.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Over the years, the S&P 500 and the cross-currency basis swap have moved in lockstep on multiple occasions, with periods of strong hedging demand coinciding with falling U.S. equity prices as liquidity shifted.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Ma left, and I shifted on my feet.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Canadian National Railway CNR 2.05%increase; up pointing triangle boosted its full-year outlook, citing firmer freight demand and shifting economic conditions, as the railroad posted higher profit and revenue in the second quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

McElwee’s last documentary, 2011’s “Photographic Memory,” saw Adrian as a young adult, trying to come into his own and figure out his place in life amid a shifting social landscape riddled with digital black holes.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

After more than a decade of posturing and power struggles - a soap opera of warring promoters, shifting managers, fractured television deals and failed negotiations - it has finally come down to this.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

A declining swap rate would be a sign of shifting liquidity flows and indicative of tightening conditions as hedging costs grow more expensive.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Open water was becoming harder and harder to find: a shifting mass of ice stretched from one horizon to the next.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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