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
Tick the paddle shifter, the wailing revs slip slightly—a kind of warble—then head through the roof again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 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
At issue were electronic dial-like rotary gear selector knobs that were new at the time and different from previous mechanical shifters that used a lever to select gears.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
It was the era of unfastened galoshes and the shifters club.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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