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“He couldn’t get it to come back around to the appropriate position because of all the years of pronating from throwing the pitch.”

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2014

Another: Pass the ulnar side of the right index along the left index several times from tip to base, while pronating and supinating the latter.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

This is usually easily done by flexing the elbow, making slight traction on the forearm, and alternately pronating and supinating it.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander