Shift in example sentence

Every language communicates with pitch to varying degrees, whether it's Mandarin Chinese, where a shift in melodic inflection gives the same phonetic syllable an entirely different meaning, to a language like English, where a raised pitch at the end of a sentence ... (Going up in pitch) implies a question?

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One man died after working a 36-hour shift.

The environmental savings could be huge, and all we would have to do is start to shift more of our resources to start to produce more of these items using more natural fibers, like 100 percent organic cotton.

So being able to tackle this while also providing an environmentally friendly product could lead to a pretty seismic industry shift.

Which eventually led me to the big decision to completely shift my research focus.

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