shifter
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The researchers discovered that a protein within this system, called GldJ, acts as a type of gear shifter that controls the direction of the motor.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
Strassburger says that new test vehicles for the Dadss system will allow drivers to start the vehicle, but stop the gear shifter from working—so the car can’t get out of “park.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
I marveled at a totally useless feature that allowed me to brake via a steering wheel–mounted paddle shifter, like a trigger on a PlayStation controller.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
Actor Rashida Jones, the daughter of composer Quincy Jones, commemorated her late father on Thursday with a bounty of descriptors, calling him a giant, icon, culture shifter and genius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
It is a hypermutant, a shape shifter, spontaneously altering its character as it moves through populations and through individuals.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Newbies will have to parse the gear thingy in the console, three controllers meant to evoke the gated shifters of yore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Parton could have limited her tracks to farmers, coal miners, swing shifters, assembly line workers and other laborers whom country music constantly lionizes, and no one would have complained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
This idea of being shape shifters in the industry was something that appealed to many of the designers they represent.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
The resulting integrated circuit occupies a 0.13-square-millimeter footprint that is smaller than phase shifters yet nearly doubles the channel-capacity -- i.e., data rate -- of conventional wireless arrays.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
“They’re amazing creatures—the fastest birds on earth. They’re like shape- shifters, the way they streamline their bodies in the air.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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