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rotate

[roh-tayt, roh-tayt] / ˈroʊ teɪt, roʊˈteɪt /




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Navy P-8A Poseidon at Keflavik Air Base, one of the maritime patrol aircraft that rotate through Iceland to hunt and track submarines across the North Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

It is understood the make-up of the coaching staff is part of a plan to rotate the coaches – fielding coach Sarah Taylor and fast-bowling coach Tim Southee are also not going to Pakistan.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The four networks along with CNN rotate the coverage which is shared with other news organizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

When discussing Microsoft in a follow-up email, Reyna wrote that “even an established AI leader can rotate out as the methodology responds to changing fundamentals, valuation, momentum, and other factors.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

I slowly rotate my body so I’m facing the dog.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes is a job for the World Meteorological Organization, which rotates them out every six years and retires them after a given storm causes too much destruction.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

SGX’s derivatives platform is deepening as a regional risk management venue as macroeconomic risks increase and capital rotates to Asia, the analyst says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

When the market rotates, everything you own falls at once.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

In G 203-47, however, the red dwarf rotates far too slowly to be synchronized with its orbit.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

The inner region of a galaxy rotates as a solid body.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

An unsatisfactory solution is currently in place: the champions in the West and Southwest go up automatically while a third automatic promotion spot is rotated among the other three leagues in a three-year cycle.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The ceremony has rotated among the four broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

—Asian stocks were mostly higher as investors rotated back into artificial-intelligence names, though gains were capped by unease over the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It also briefly emerged last fall, as investors rotated away from tech and into stocks that had been lagging behind.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

All night long they rotated in shifts from the pumps, to the axes, and back again.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Campbell said they’ve been rotating out of U.S. utilities and into regional European players.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Four larger cylinders were positioned on a rotating carousel in a configuration resembling four candlesticks on an old-fashioned chandelier.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

In rotating, players are encouraged to maintain the side's shape by swapping zones with their team-mates – filling gaps as they arise.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

“We can’t be at the mercy of others forever—one day they say they’ll sell you a chip, and the next day they say they won’t,” Huawei’s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, said Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

These were set on rotating rings that could be spun independently.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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