shifting

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Users said ADI Predictstreet mismanaged the contest, unexpectedly shifting the dates of snapshots and altering the rules, then failing to deliver tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 12, 2026

Coasts are designed to move - waves, tides, currents and wind are always shifting sand around, while dunes grow and erode naturally over time.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2026

"We're at a transition point where climate change is shifting from being an abstract statistical future problem that you read about in reports, to a concrete present and disruptive feature of daily life," Burgess said.

From Barron's • Jul. 9, 2026

“Fire moves quick,” the 32-year-old Forstag says in a voiceover, describing his former job, before seamlessly shifting to what’s happening in Washington.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2026

Boaz backed away from both, his gaze shifting restlessly between the two identical versions of the girl he’d willingly given his neck to, the girl he had betrayed and nearly had buried.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny