They're artists with core constituencies and strong sales, but whose impact is better measured across the many different channels that listeners shuffle through.

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Any given antidepressant helps only about one-third of the people who try it, forcing patients to shuffle through one drug after another until they find something that works.

FORBES

At the guard stations outside the NYSE, former policemen shuffle through stacks of paper, with sheets of all shapes and sizes, attempting to match the name of the visitors waiting in line with a note that may have been plopped in their hands.

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It has remained simple, but Apple only recently enabled iPods to go into shuffle mode without digging through on-screen menus.

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For another, he's been through the City Hall shuffle before.

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But the distraction of label mergers caused the album to get lost in the shuffle, and The Format was soon left to promote its music through touring, online promotion and word of mouth.

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He said the process was being complicated because money for the scheme was being fed through a grant made specifically for schools, which was causing a "bureaucratic shuffle".

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And the Lakers were like a bunch of shuffle-boarders, trailing on the scoreboard and the hardwood all night long as they trudged through the second game of a difficult back-to-back.

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Scrolling through tracks one by one using the tiny buttons can be tedious, but if this were a Shuffle, choosing the next song wouldn't even be an option.

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