rotary

But what was once a small memorial is now just the base of an old rotary phone without the handset.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Inside the box is an old rotary telephone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Next to the black rotary phone, which used to belong to Bozeman’s mother, a pink rock appeared one day with the words, “You are Beautiful.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

One of them invented the rotary press, which made the early editions of this newspaper possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

General Peckem rose and moved toward a rotary rack of enormous colored maps.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

But he also sees a unique set of challenges in Boston, pointing to a city that’s “not gridded” and has “windy streets, poor weather, lots of roundabouts or rotaries, crazy intersections.”

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2018

Modern roundabouts are smaller than old rotaries like the La Salle circle, which allow high speeds.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2016

Farther south along Main, past a couple more rotaries, you’ll find Manchester Village.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2014

Signs and public-service announcements have taught Americans how to negotiate their new rotaries.

From Economist ● Oct. 3, 2013

One does not envy the lot of the stout fellows who crawl into the great rotaries to stow away the chips.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various