rotate
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"Our graduates rotate across four areas at six-month intervals, working directly alongside senior relationship managers to learn their trade," Northampton-based Pratt explains.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Instead of moving water, their design allows electrons to travel through a spiral-shaped molecule, causing it to rotate as electrical current passes through.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
That could rotate plenty of borrowers into a more favorable “band” that gets them lower upfront fees and better borrowing rates.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
As investors rotate out of artificial-intelligence stocks, Berkshire Hathaway shares have risen 5% over the past month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The pastures are the stage and the main action of the dance is to rotate the animals through the pastures.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Switzerland's presidency rotates annually among the seven members of the government, called the Federal Council, of which Parmelin, 66, was the longest-serving minister.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
Earth rotates much more slowly than a gas giant such as Saturn.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
It’s about the fact that the Lotus’s polar axis runs exactly through the driver’s inboard hip, so that the machine rotates around them and not some invisible pivot point, just off-center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Up into the air her hand goes, and she rotates this way and that.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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AI bellwethers like Korean and Japanese semiconductor plays recoiled as traders rotated into consumer and internet plays listed in Hong Kong and China.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Young trees were placed on a horizontal platform that rotated around its axis inside a sphere illuminated equally from every direction.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
By pure chance, the ball slipped into his right hand with the seams rotated in a slightly different way than he was used to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Theagreement replaces the "Wheel Deal" system, which rotated the gala among major networks like ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Instead of falling to the ground, they stayed in the air and rotated at his will, with only the smallest touch and encouragement of his fingers.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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Investors are rotating out of these more risky investments into relative safety in Treasurys and defensive stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
When the scientists applied an electrical voltage, measurements revealed that the molecule began rotating.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
The rotating platform prevented the trees from receiving a consistent directional signal from gravity, while the surrounding light eliminated cues about which way they should grow.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
His "rotating pantry" - consisting of long-life food supplies like oats, quinoa and peanut butter - is regularly used for cooking then replaced so "it's not just sitting there expiring".
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Then there was nothing but a loud rotating roaring and hissing noise which rose to such a tornado that he felt that he could not stand it any more.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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