shuffle
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Tourtsakis had me lie down and shuffle upward until the pyramid’s center was over my hips.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
With the opposition slower to shuffle back across, the direct pass to the forward dropping deep was then played - the same pattern but executed slightly differently against a different formation.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Kris Rehl, an organizer with LA Street Care and the Abolish 41.18 Campaign, contends that no-encampment zones serve only to shuffle homeless people from one area to another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The president developed his own trademark dance to accompany the song -- a stiff shuffle of the hips and fist bumps at waist-high level.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
A short silence was followed by the quick shuffle of feet and the bouncing strobe of flashlights in hands.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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The eight-speed transmission shuffles up to overdrive as soon as the throttle pressure slackens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Heineken’s move is the latest of CEO shuffles in the food and beverage industries.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Malik said 41.18 is “not a policy that solves homelessness,” but instead shuffles homeless people from street to street and district to district.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Logan Roy, one of the richest men on the planet, shuffles off this mortal coil in his private jet’s toilet.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
All you could hear were quiet shuffles and whispers.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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Still, as I shuffled papers, I became part of the buffering, incomplete chain of communication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jason Beaman, a Navy and Army vet, was shuffled among therapists who later left until he finally had enough.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The company has also shuffled its lower ranks over that time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
The dysfunction starts in the early grades and worsens as children are shuffled through the system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
As he shuffled off, I imagined he was saying the Khotanese equivalent of “good riddance!”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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“Zone One” is a smart take on the shuffling hordes and pandemic survivors who try to take Manhattan back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Those supports are a vital part of a long-term-care plan, and could do more to help stretch funds than any shuffling around of index funds or tax strategizing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
An AFP journalist captured rare footage at Al-Rahmaniyah camp showing exhausted women shuffling under a punishing sun, jerrycans swaying on their heads after hours spent waiting for water at a distant well.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
It's been more a shuffling of the pack and a slap on the wrist.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
There was an embarrassed shuffling in the ranks of the listeners.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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