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- noun Plural form of
gearshift .
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Examples
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How can a writer resist under a tyranny -- while "an empire's gearshifts creak behind" her, as you put it?
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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How can a writer resist under a tyranny -- while "an empire's gearshifts creak behind" her, as you put it?
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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How can a writer resist under a tyranny -- while "an empire's gearshifts creak behind" her, as you put it?
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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How can a writer resist under a tyranny -- while "an empire's gearshifts creak behind" her, as you put it?
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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How can a writer resist under a tyranny -- while "an empire's gearshifts creak behind" her, as you put it?
Anis Shivani: Poetry As a Bridge Across Cultures: Anis Shivani Interviews Marilyn Hacker Anis Shivani 2010
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Like the Coupe, the GT-C has a "Sport" button that firms up the adaptive Skyhook-system suspension, as well as re-mapping the throttle response and gearshifts for a bit more performance.
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The SPORT mode features damping characteristics that reduce the understeer tendency, quicker gearshifts, and better response to accelerating commands.
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Subaru's new Pleo comes with a high-tech belt-drive transmission that goes from a stop to 130 kph with no lurching gearshifts.
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Thus would follow concept albums, monstrous, sprawling double and triple record sets, stylistic gearshifts into unfamiliar genres and excursions into the realm of classical composition.
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It's taken weeks of adjustment to get that working properly-and now the electric gearshifts on the cars are acting up!
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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