rotary

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The damped-action rotary controller between the front seats dates to the Late Cretaceous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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

Even the simplest choice, like whether to have a Touch-Tone telephone or a rotary one, required enormous, painstaking deliberation.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride