shifting

Example Sentences

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"In particular, with conditions such as addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder we see a difficulty in breaking habits and shifting behavior. So, understanding the mechanics of behavioral flexibility may one day help us develop better treatments."

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

Seong-Hyon Lee, a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Asia Center, also said Beijing is shifting towards "underwriting regime durability" rather than seeking to coerce North Korea into denuclearisation.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

In even as short a lifetime as hers, the author writes, it is “like a memory kaleidoscope, shifting and revealing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Instead, it saw investors shifting away from tech stocks, which critics have warned are overvalued and could crash in the same way as the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

He began striding up and down again, praying and prophesying, with his words sometimes shifting to an unknown, yet strangely powerful, tongue.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer