rotary
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During her life she secured more than 25 other permits, including for shoe-manufacturing equipment, improved window frames and sashes and a rotary engine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Regardless, the desire to be “the Mary” is natural to anyone raised on “Mary Tyler Moore,” which describes pretty much anybody who remembers rotary dial phones or Nick at Nite.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
It’s like having the world’s largest collection of rotary phones while the other guy’s building cell towers.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 25, 2025
I have certainly observed, in my own children, the younger generation’s infatuation with products that became obsolete just as they were born: the rotary dial phone, the disposable camera, the network sitcom.
From Slate • Aug. 11, 2025
She must have one of those really old rotary phones because I can hear her dialing it in the dining room.
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
Vocabulary lists containing rotary
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