shift gears
Example Sentences
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Novak and his team wanted to understand the metabolic factors that keep stem cells functioning normally and what changes when they must shift gears to heal a wound.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
Emily has forged a career in communications, but now - at the age of 44 - says her condition is worsening, and she has had to shift gears in her career.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025
Because real live people, unlike pretrained bots, are able to craft, edit, adjust, and spontaneously shift gears in ways that these apps, however impressive, still just can’t.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2024
The seventh album is often when the most brilliant artists shift gears into a level of mastery that seems newly effortless: Consider Bob Dylan’s seventh album, none other than “Blonde on Blonde.”
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
“I know you are, Joey. We all are. But we can stop being sorry now. It’s time to shift gears and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Okay?”
From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos
