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rotary

[roh-tuh-ree] / ˈroʊ tə ri /


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There’s also an interfacing rotary selector in the center console for your dialing convenience.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

A startup called LiquidPiston has spent more than a decade developing a new kind of rotary engine—including the X Mini shown here—that it says can be both more efficient and compact than traditional piston engines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The rotary engine’s last U.S. appearance was in the 2012 Mazda RX-8 sports car.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The company built and flew a prototype of one such drone, in which batteries power the vertical takeoff and the rotary engine takes over for long-range horizontal flight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

I watched as she used the rotary cutter to cut a pentagon shape, sewed different scraps together around the pentagon’s edges, and ironed after each seam.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry




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