reshuffle
Britishnoun
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an act of shuffling again
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a reorganization, esp of jobs within a government or cabinet
verb
Example Sentences
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Two technocratic deputy finance ministers were appointed, easing concerns over policy continuity following the cabinet reshuffle, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But Tugendhat, the Tory MP for Tonbridge in Kent who Badenoch appointed her shadow foreign secretary in a reshuffle earlier this month, has suggested Trump does not mean it.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
A Conservative reshuffle had already been expected in the coming weeks because of the shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho's upcoming maternity leave.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Ukraine's lawmakers approved the country's new defence minister on Wednesday, a month after a reshuffle that triggered a public backlash after the dismissal of his popular predecessor Mykhailo Fedorov.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
That genes could also be reproduced, recombined between chromosomes, and repaired by specific proteins, explained how cells and organisms manage to conserve, copy, and reshuffle genetic information across generations.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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