as in shifts
to change one's position
most babies begin to locomote—by crawling—when they are seven to ten months old
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But the Dash does have an outsized history that shifts it out of the realm of poetry and folklore alone.—
Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
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When the frame shifts up and over the reservoir’s edge, Copco 1 appears as a concrete colossus, standing sentry over the river naively burbling below.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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White and Clark have a strong foundation underneath them as the team moves into the future.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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This moves the email to your Spam folder and helps train AOL's filters.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Locomotes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locomotes. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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