shifting
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Depending on your income or wealth, this might involve shifting more of your investments to bonds and cash equivalents.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
As a result, cells lose what scientists call metabolic plasticity, their ability to rapidly adapt to shifting energy demands.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
He was up against shifting policy, U.S. travel bans, and, in one case, an ongoing war with a country in the World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Both support the effort to divert some 911 calls away from the Los Angeles Police Department, shifting them to unarmed responders.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
This was one of the main shipping routes between the eastern and western Mediterranean, and it was also an extremely dangerous body of water, filled with shoals, sandbars, and suddenly shifting currents.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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