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
In part, England picked Smith for his ability to shift gears, dominate attacks and marshal the tail.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2024
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
It took him a moment to shift gears.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
