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How to use the word shifting in a Sentence?

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Consumers are having to down-shift and forgo certain premium products and instead go for the cheaper ones. In groceries, that means people shifting from organic fruit to non-organic fruit.

Vivek Pandya

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As inflation hits consumers and really impacts their buying power, they are shifting to the cheaper products offered online — across the board.

Vivek Pandya

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some have worked well, but typically only for a short period of time as consumers continue to seek something new and different, many seltzer buyers are just spending less on seltzers, with a third of volume loss due to shifting to other categories, like spirits-based cocktails.

Kaleigh Theriault

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are seeing headwinds shifting to tailwinds across markets around the world, including the Asia Pacific region, and continued recovery coming out of the pandemic, the Asia Pacific region will continue to be a key growth driver for Starbucks globally and we remain optimistic of its long-term growth and opportunities, underpinned by a growing middle class and rising coffee consumption.

Michael Conway

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those shifts, coupled with the rapid pace at which the economy is currently shifting has made measuring current economic conditions more difficult. It is hard to tell where we are, let alone where the economy is headed.

Diane Swonk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s fair to be confused about all of the different ways in which somebody can get access to medication abortion and wonder which ways are legal and which ways are a little bit more outside of the legal framework, we’re in a learning curve right now. But then, the education has to change because it is constantly a shifting climate.

Asha Hassan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Joe Biden’s failure to enforce the law at the border has made every state a border state, instead of securing the border, President Biden is shifting the burden of the influx of illegal migrants onto New York communities. Upstate New York should not be punished for Biden’s border crisis.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's not much they can do aside from shifting policies and providing more clarity and certainty to the oil sector on the future of oil consumption, oil companies are hesitant to invest in raising production and building new capacity because the administration has openly, openly indicated that it will be pushing Americans away from consuming fossil fuels. And that certainly has an impact on the future viability of the oil sector. And I think that's why we probably won't see much meaningful improvement.

De Haan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Let me be direct about the competition between the United States and China, as we manage shifting geopolitical trends, United States will conduct United States as a reasonable leader.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Time difference will make a big difference and yes, people will take advantage of the time shifting, something that started with clever VCR owners back in 1981 for the Charles-Diana wedding, and is much easier now.

Robert Thompson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People say, well, the generic ballot has been shifting. Well, I'll ask you this question : What was the generic ballot in the last election ? i don't know what the generic ballot is going to be. ... I know it's kind of baked in with what the issues are.

Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know there are others who are hurting, but fortunately I'm not in the red, for me, luckily, I have an area where we're booming, expanding. But our profit margins are thinner. Your heart goes out to those in that position who need to set the ultimatum. That's a real concern if some people are shutting down operations, and what it would do to the business, and customers shifting away. With the talk out there, it is a scary thing.

Troy Fulsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For years, Hollywood has been primarily focused on streaming video, but they're now shifting elsewhere, more gaming, sometimes blockchain/NFT, experiential exhibits, etc.

Matthew Ball

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When Many Republicans look at the House vote and Many Republicans look at just the shifting sentiment about this issue, i think this is an issue that many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, feel has been resolved.

Clarence Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Germany starting to backtrack and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looking at doing a new deal with Senegal on gas supply. That's a worrying sign for the G7 unity in May for shifting out of fossil fuels, what's happening in Germany at the moment is sending the wrong message.

Alex Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Shifting costs to' users' of the criminal legal system creates extraordinary hardships for defendants and their families, in addition to erecting sometimes insurmountable barriers to re-entry, legal financial obligations require probation and parole officers to allocate substantial time to acting as collection agents that could otherwise be devoted to rehabilitation and public safety.

Luke Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Alcohol could be used as a coping mechanism for either loneliness and boredom or for relationship strife, also, people were finding that they were having trouble shifting between work and after work, and sometimes drinking was the thing that they used in order to make that transition.

Sarah Church

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

With this dawn of a new world order, investors should carefully choose their asset allocations, systematic and strong investment processes and due diligence procedures before investing will become even more crucial. Active investing will become more important given the potential for shifting economic, political and social developments in individual regions.

Michael Strobaek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Democrats are masters of blame-shifting when things go wrong. They find other scapegoats, as they did over the last number of years, but there is no one to blame but themselves. They own every, every state office but Legislature, assembly and governor's office. And obviously they have the U.S. Senate and the House, and the president.

Adam Laxalt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love that formulation. Power is shifting away from White dominance.

Ian Haney Lopez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was something shifting that forced us to deal with politics way more than we ever did before. Democracy is messy, i think Covid brought out the hyper messiness.

Donald Fennoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the most challenging time in my 36 years as an educator, we’re trying to educate students in the middle of a pandemic while the sands around us are consistently shifting.

Superintendent Vince Matthews

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But now that fee will be cut in half, further shifting the burden of paying these benefits away from the coal companies and on to taxpayers.

Cecil Roberts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As many Americans are shifting to a plant-forward diet, a new analysis revealed that pistachios are now considered a complete plant protein – meaning that they contain all nine essential amino acids.

Danielle Talenti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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