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  • verb Present participle of unshift.

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Examples

  • The game played by human rights organizations of what I have sometimes called “serial absolutism” is a special case in game theory of serially “moving the goalposts,” which in turn is a special case of serial insincere promising these are the absolute, unshifting standards, we really, really promise this time!

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Follow-on Drone Hearing 2010

  • He stares through unshifting, dust-speckled air and sees beams of rough-hewn wood.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • He stares through unshifting, dust-speckled air and sees beams of rough-hewn wood.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • He stares through unshifting, dust-speckled air and sees beams of rough-hewn wood.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • Fundamentalists are those with unshifting world-views.

    So Sue Me - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Out from their shining spherical surfaces darted rays of the same pale gold, rigid, unshifting, with the same suggestion of frozen stillness.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • He led them, over blessedly unshifting rock, for what seemed to McCoy an interminably long time, until he brought them to the door of one of the buildings.

    Demons J. M. Dillard 2000

  • He led them, over blessedly unshifting rock, for what seemed to McCoy an interminably long time, until he brought them to the door of one of the buildings.

    Demons J. M. Dillard 2000

  • The fun in this life, the good jobs, the rich husbands, were not a matter of merit and hard work, but were a matter of brute, unshifting biology.

    Tears Of The Giraffe Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- 2000

  • He led them, over blessedly unshifting rock, for what seemed to McCoy an interminably long time, until he brought them to the door of one of the buildings.

    Demons J. M. Dillard 2000

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