Sentence examples for shift meaning from inspiring English sources

Fulfillment of the dream of energy independence shared by every president since Richard Nixon would be a substantial geopolitical shift, meaning the United States would no longer depend on erratic or unfriendly oil producers like Venezuela or Nigeria.

And of course, they are used to rip parts of films, overlaid with subversive new typography or edits to shift meaning.

The reclassification of cases that would previously have been U1 to lower levels of urgency caused a distributional shift, meaning that surgery for almost 90% of all patients could be planned at least 24 hours in advance.

The CAS FF THR group walks closer to a healthy normal, especially at t2 in terms of phase shift, meaning local maxima and minima are more likely to occur at the same time of a gait cycle as for a young healthy adult.

Metcalf, a makher (Yiddish for "high muck-a-muck") in the American Dialect Society, shows how to compound (scofflaw), shift meaning (spin, web), shorten (facsimile to fax), blend (netiquette, Frankenfood), borrow (salsa) and create (blurb, gobbledygook).

It is relatively easy, however, for an individual word to disappear or shift meaning in so many daughter languages that its existence or meaning in the parent language cannot be confidently inferred.

In recent decades, that authority has been diminished, or taken for granted, so emblems have shifted meaning.

Due to our bipedalism, our pelvises shifted, meaning that women can't give birth to anything larger than a baby's head.

That's a result of cultural shifts meaning that all of us, at different times, will want to be makers as well as consumers.

Lewis Call, an assistant history professor at California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, said the masked protesters are adopting a powerful symbol that has shifted meaning through the centuries.

In New York City, police officers trade off cars between shifts, meaning the engine can be left running all day and night," said Scott.