The shifting sand dunes along the coast alter the landscape each season, making navigation difficult for travelers.
沿海不断变化的沙丘每个季节都会改变地貌，使旅行者的导航变得困难。
Recent scholarship complicates this image, revealing instead a shifting web of regional routes, many of which carried goods only a few hundred miles before passing them to the next set of traders.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
A museum catalog entry describes a 17th-century painting's brushwork in exhaustive technical detail before shifting, in its final paragraph, to speculate about the emotional state of the artist at the time of composition.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “shifting”?
B — Changing position or direction. “shifting” means changing position or direction.
Which word means “changing position or direction”?
D — shifting. “shifting” means changing position or direction.
shifting — changing position or direction. In Chinese: 变化的.
shifting is pronounced /ˈʃɪftɪŋ/.
The shifting sand dunes along the coast alter the landscape each season, making navigation difficult for travelers. (沿海不断变化的沙丘每个季节都会改变地貌，使旅行者的导航变得困难。)
changing, varying, fluctuating — all close in meaning to shifting (changing position or direction).
stable, constant — each the opposite of shifting (changing position or direction).
Yes. shifting is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.