"arguments shifted" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a change in someone's opinion or point of view. For example, "When he heard the other side's evidence, his arguments shifted and he began to see the situation differently."
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Since then, Chief Justice Roberts continued, "the method of analysis and argument shifted to the more solid grounds of legal arguments.
Otherwise, why are we acting?" The tides of the argument shifted throughout the 90-minute session to a degree that left many in the courtroom audience almost disoriented.
Then the argument shifted to the idea that rioters might be rational actors: maybe at the moment a riot was beginning people changed their beliefs.
"Now, over Justice Rehnquist's time on the Court, the method of analysis and argument shifted to the more solid grounds of legal arguments — what are the texts of the statutes involved, what precedents control.
Then the argument shifted to the fact that because nuclear weapons could not be disinvented, a world free of nukes is "at worst a mirage, at best, a highly dangerous place to be".
In the literature on delegated power, our argument shifts the question from how best to make administrative agencies accountable to Congress, to who ought to be the principal, given the viability of multiple legislative principals.
Next, the argument shifts from considering what the sovereign can do to what it would be practical or prudent for a sovereign to do.
A moment when the facts alter, the arguments shift, and the debate moves on.
The economic arguments shift decisively every day toward cleaner energy and renewables.
