Sentence examples for shifted meaning from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

However, PPP and PPS are shifted, meaning that shifts can be the consequence of multiple bounces.

In fact, one-third of the reported here twintrons are shifted, meaning that for instance both 5′ and 3′ splice sites of the U12-type intron lay upstream of U2-type splice sites.

According to US SIF, an industry group, the term SRI has shifted meaning from "socially-responsible investment" to "sustainable, responsible and impact investment".

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

Privacy, they argued, hadn't always been necessary; it had become necessary — because of the shifting meaning and nature of publicity.

As the shifting meaning of the term Anglo-Irish literature during the 20th century demonstrates, there is disagreement about how to characterize 18th-century Irish writing in English.

Privacy, they argued, hadn't always been necessary; it had become necessary because of the shifting meaning and nature of publicity.

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.