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
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No reshuffle or reform can substitute for the legitimacy and accountability that an election provides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
A highly-popular tech evangelist who pushed for reforms, Fedorov was dismissed in July in a divisive reshuffle that triggered unprecedented protests in his support.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
England have already been forced into a reshuffle following the retirement of former captain Ben Stokes and a knee injury to Jacob Bethell that means the batter will miss the three-Test series.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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