Doing
Shift
Shift noun - An action planned or taken to achieve a desired result.
Usage example: desperate shifts to stave off financial disaster
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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He then did a dramatic shift and doing soul in the early 1990s (which he stated is the kind of music he always wanted to make in the beginning).
Source: Career Resurrection - And then you have the outright Manipulative Bastard, who knows he's doing this for selfish reasons, but wants to shift the blame for the heartbreak onto the person forced into doing the dumping.
Source: Break Up Demand -
A completely silhouetted girl (later updated to be fully drawn but with an alternate, pastel color scheme) doing nothing but changing poses while the background and camera angle shift around her?
Source: Light Novel / Bakemonogatari
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Shift and Doing. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/doing/shift
Doing & Shift. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/doing/shift>.
Shift or Doing. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/doing/shift.
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