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Discover LudwigThe phrase "shifted onto" is a valid and commonly used expression in written English.
It is usually used to mean that one thing has been replaced by another thing or shifted to a different position. For example: "The burden of responsibility was shifted onto John's shoulders when the project leader left."
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His weight shifted onto a cane.
Sometimes the blame is shifted onto the excluded for being paranoid or not proactive enough.
Everyone is being shifted onto piecework and kept dangling waiting for it.
America since 9/11 has shifted onto a wartime footing, and domestic issues have receded.
Private-sector debt has simply been shifted onto public balance sheets.
There are more and more processes where the need to talk is being shifted onto a smartphone user interface.
The aim now is for Durex to equal great sex as the company's focus has shifted onto sexual enhancement products".
As Coleman notes, the costs have not disappeared, they have simply shifted onto the overall economy of the nation.
Collins also tended to throw with his weight shifted onto his back leg, his right leg. "And he's got the arm strength to do that," Fassel said.
In Europe, too, the costs of capitalism's crisis and corporate bailouts by governments have been shifted onto the general population, where they, too, have "austerity" now.
It was wrong for all the wrong reasons, in an echo of the way responsibility in the case was shifted onto Martin's shoulders.
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