Operate
Shift
Shift verb - To change the place or position of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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They operate behind the shadows and would show up without warning to interfere with the affairs of the human world and shift the events to move along the directions they have in plan.
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Don Marquis' archy and mehitabel, and other books in the series, are written from the perspective of Archy the cockroach, entirely in lowercase letters... because Archy can operate an old-fashioned typewriter by painstakingly hopping on the keys, but he can't hit shift at the same time!
Source: Painting the Medium - BlazBlue: Continuum Shift has the characters' story routes operate like this.
Source: Simultaneous Arcs
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Shift and Operate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/operate/shift
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