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shuffle

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verb

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Recent Examples of shuffle
Noun
The morning shuffle at Primer Academia de ABC began with a flurry of hugs, high fives and pre-K students toting pint-sized backpacks on a mid-September school day the Nashville Spanish-immersion preschool. Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025 His departure follows Paramount’s recent merger with Skydance, which has resulted in several significant executive shuffles. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
Instead of shuffling through the deep cabinet shelves for small jars, attach rows of slim shelves with dowel rods to safely hold a few dozen spices. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025 Companies react with token fixes, making small austerity cuts, shuffling around leadership, and rebranding business units. Daniel Schmeltz, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shuffle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shuffle
Noun
  • In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The ambiguity of authorship is meant to unsettle the reading of the text.
    Lana Lin September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When the band quickly left before the encore, the elated, yet sweaty, audience clapped their hands and stomped their feet without virtually anyone leaving the building.
    Josh Chesler, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Eastern members of the alliance, including Estonia, Poland, and Romania, recently reported incursions into their airspace, while drones that disrupted Danish airports are suspected of being linked to Russia.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Sensory deprivation training has become increasingly common over the past decade, particularly when Steph Curry popularized practicing with strobe goggles to disrupt his vision.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These launch providers are racing a medley of Chinese rocket builders to become the second company to land and reuse a first stage booster.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • My first dish, the Peruvian Ceviche, as suggested by my chef, was a stunning medley.
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The rest of the statement was full of equally cowardly equivocation.
    Sahar Mustafah August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Their robust negations appeared to put both them and their American hosts on the right side of history, compared with writers in the unfree world of authoritarian regimes, who seemed to have been permanently tainted by lies, equivocations, and evasions.
    Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Verb
  • But there have been some career stumbles recently, a superhero disappointment in particular, that must have complicated Johnson’s conception of his remarkable career.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Wallen then stumbles to his feet in the middle of the road, as rain pours down, with close-up images showing Wallen in tattered clothes and covered in scrapes and cuts.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By bridging cutting-edge research with accessible, actionable advice, this book fills a critical gap in the menopause conversation — one that has left millions of women confused, underserved and unheard.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Others commented on the eeriness of discovering unfamiliar images in one’s personal gallery and the realization of how default app settings can confuse or alarm users.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Shuffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shuffle. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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