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rotate

[roh-tayt, roh-tayt] / ˈroʊ teɪt, roʊˈteɪt /




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Then a quartet of Crimson players in diamond formation would rotate around him, ready to catch a deflection or take a lateral and speed into the end zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Lately, tech and megacap growth stocks are doing “the heavy lifting,” as investors rotate into those segments rather than exiting equities altogether, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Holding court, he had Joe Root and Rehan Ahmed alike involved in a batting drill on how to rotate the strike against spin.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

When a weak magnetic field is applied, the polarization of those nuclear spins begins to rotate.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

First, I set down the sack of gunpowder so that I could rotate my belt around my waist.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Even more remarkably, the researchers identified three recurring weather states that appear and disappear from view as the brown dwarf rotates.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 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

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

When the market rotates, everything you own falls at once.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

She eases to a stop at a red light and rotates her cotton-topped head in Scoob’s direction.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

Webb's exceptionally sensitive instruments made this possible by detecting extremely small changes in the object's brightness as different parts of its atmosphere rotated into view.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

USA international Coffey, one of their most crucial midfielders, has featured in every game but has only played 90 minutes once as Jeglertz has rotated effectively.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The ceremony has rotated among the four broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Buyer demand dried up and institutional capital rotated to AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

I felt a hard piece of lead, the size of a marble, swim inside Papá’s knee as he rotated his leg.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

The team then evaluated the element wheel, a rotating mechanism equipped with filters and other optical components.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Back in July, when a powerful semiconductor-led momentum trade endured a major crash, investors rotating into other sectors away from the AI trade limited the damage at the index level.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The pool is a rotating group of journalists that travel with the president and provide coverage to other outlets, due to limited space.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

As a result, Microsoft is rotating people through more areas of the company faster, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In 1963, Roy Kerr, a New Zealander, found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking


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