as in to shift
to change one's position most babies begin to locomote—by crawling—when they are seven to ten months old

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Recent Examples of locomote So, those are (roughly in order) the hands, the sensory apparatus like vision and haptics and sound and so on, and the ability to locomote to get the hands to work. IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023 This study provides a better understanding of the interactions between the foot and the terrain and opens up to new way to design soft robots able to locomote on unstructured terrains. IEEE Spectrum, 8 May 2020 Parents of babies up to age 3 can watch their children locomote on tatami mats or haul themselves up on their jellied legs by holding on to short, fence-like partitions. New York Times, 9 June 2022 The simulated and real robots can use shape change to switch between rolling gaits and inchworm gaits, to locomote in multiple environments. IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023 All reasonably healthy individuals can locomote at the necessary speed to beat the cutoffs for any ultramarathon. Jason Koop, Outside Online, 19 July 2017 The general idea of this research is to get robots to learn to locomote in much the way human toddlers do. Matt Simon, Wired, 5 Jan. 2021 The idea of connecting to our ancestral past requires us to locomote as we are evolved to do, using our senses and making sure the mind and body are in union. Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2016
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  • Uncertainty around import costs had already shifted the global supply chain, and the stock market had fallen sharply.
    Oliver Whang, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
  • The long stretch of disruptive severe weather and flash flooding across portions of the central and eastern United States will be shifting east Saturday.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 May 2025
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  • According to Victoria Dittmar of Insight Crime, a think tank that studies organized crime in the Americas, production continues by other Sinaloa cartel factions, and has since moved into neighboring states like Sonora and Baja California, where cooks operate under the oversight of the cartel.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Golden eagles will forage during migration flights and use this uplift from heated air, which also comes from open landscapes, to move efficiently during migration and seasonal movements.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
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  • If their tail starts twitching or their ears are flattened, then they may be overstimulated, which can lead to aggression.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Real Estate As Ballast Against Market Turbulence Why does Manhattan real estate hold up while other assets twitch?
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Locomote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locomote. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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