"shuffle the cards" meaning in English

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      "form": "shuffles the cards",
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      "form": "shuffling the cards",
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      "form": "shuffled the cards",
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      "form": "shuffled the cards",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Julia Pascal, Women in Theatre, page 103",
          "text": "Things often look as though they have radically changed; whereas they have just taken on opposite appearances, as they so often do, to shuffle the cards and set people on a side track.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Peter Drucker, Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism, page 123",
          "text": "Lesbian bohemians whose economic status was less secure and whose lives were less would-be-conventional, like surrealists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, were sometimes less clearly inverted or more inclined to play with gender ('shuffle the cards') in proto-queer ways.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Eli Avidar, The Abyss: Bridging the Divide between Israel and the Arab World",
          "text": "It shuffled the cards in our region and changed the perception that Israel is an undefeatable country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Impossible Revolution",
          "text": "His example shows that the mukhabarat play a role that goes beyond dirty tricks: they are also adept at shuffling the cards in order to manipulate the minds and attitudes of the public.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Raphael Israeli, Human Rights and Human Development in the Arab and Islamic World",
          "text": "But the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Khumeini shuffled the cards, in fact unwittingly serving as the precursor of the Islamic Spring.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Simona Salvo, The School of Mathematics at Rome’s University Campus, page 264",
          "text": "When the university was reformed in the Eighties, changes in the organization of the School shuffled the cards in such a way that data does not allow us to compare numbers.",
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        "To reorganize or restructure an organization or situation."
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        "(figuratively) To reorganize or restructure an organization or situation."
      ],
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          "ref": "1902, William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, page 463",
          "text": "Progress in one quarter only implies retrogression in another; human endeavor with its victories and its failures means no more than that the Absolute is shuffling the cards.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Luca Iandoli, Giuseppe Zollo, Organizational Cognition and Learning",
          "text": "This is the same as shuffling the cards and adding diversity to the system, that otherwise would have been excessively influenced by the choice of the initial population.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Joseph Seckbach, Divine Action and Natural Selection, page 749",
          "text": "Creatures therefore do NOT have to shuffle all the cards completely from scratch every time, so the probability of a viable result (and hence the probability of an improvement in fitness) is vastly higher than would be predicted by classical statistics.",
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        "To randomize an ongoing process."
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        "(figurative) To randomize an ongoing process."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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          "_dis1": "11 81 8",
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          "word": "rebattre les cartes"
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          "ref": "2000, Kirsten Larsen, Princesses Pull-Out Posters and Game Cards, page 31",
          "text": "Shuffle the cards and deal out four cards to each player.",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shuffle, cards."
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  "word": "shuffle the cards"
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      "form": "shuffles the cards",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      "form": "shuffled the cards",
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          "ref": "2005, Julia Pascal, Women in Theatre, page 103",
          "text": "Things often look as though they have radically changed; whereas they have just taken on opposite appearances, as they so often do, to shuffle the cards and set people on a side track.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Peter Drucker, Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism, page 123",
          "text": "Lesbian bohemians whose economic status was less secure and whose lives were less would-be-conventional, like surrealists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, were sometimes less clearly inverted or more inclined to play with gender ('shuffle the cards') in proto-queer ways.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2015, Eli Avidar, The Abyss: Bridging the Divide between Israel and the Arab World",
          "text": "It shuffled the cards in our region and changed the perception that Israel is an undefeatable country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Impossible Revolution",
          "text": "His example shows that the mukhabarat play a role that goes beyond dirty tricks: they are also adept at shuffling the cards in order to manipulate the minds and attitudes of the public.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Raphael Israeli, Human Rights and Human Development in the Arab and Islamic World",
          "text": "But the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Khumeini shuffled the cards, in fact unwittingly serving as the precursor of the Islamic Spring.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Simona Salvo, The School of Mathematics at Rome’s University Campus, page 264",
          "text": "When the university was reformed in the Eighties, changes in the organization of the School shuffled the cards in such a way that data does not allow us to compare numbers.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(figuratively) To reorganize or restructure an organization or situation."
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          "ref": "1902, William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, page 463",
          "text": "Progress in one quarter only implies retrogression in another; human endeavor with its victories and its failures means no more than that the Absolute is shuffling the cards.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Luca Iandoli, Giuseppe Zollo, Organizational Cognition and Learning",
          "text": "This is the same as shuffling the cards and adding diversity to the system, that otherwise would have been excessively influenced by the choice of the initial population.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Joseph Seckbach, Divine Action and Natural Selection, page 749",
          "text": "Creatures therefore do NOT have to shuffle all the cards completely from scratch every time, so the probability of a viable result (and hence the probability of an improvement in fitness) is vastly higher than would be predicted by classical statistics.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To randomize an ongoing process."
      ],
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        "(figurative) To randomize an ongoing process."
      ],
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Kirsten Larsen, Princesses Pull-Out Posters and Game Cards, page 31",
          "text": "Shuffle the cards and deal out four cards to each player.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shuffle, cards."
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "rebattre les cartes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shuffle the cards"
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