shift
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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
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“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
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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
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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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