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rotate

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




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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

The networks rotate coverage of White House presidential events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Gravity between the outer and inner masses caused the suspended torsion balance to rotate, twisting the thin metal ribbon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

I switch on the television, rotate the channel dial through the four channels, and settle on a serialized show called All My Children.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

The Sun's gravitational pull on Mars changes over the course of the planet's seasons because Mars travels along a slightly elliptical orbit and rotates on a tilted axis.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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

The LRO, in service since 2009, circles the Moon from pole to pole every two hours while the Moon rotates underneath it.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 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

He rotates it in front of his eyes: eighteen little windows, six balconies, a tiny entrance door.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

—Asian stocks were mostly higher as investors rotated back into artificial-intelligence names, though gains were capped by unease over the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Also returning is All-American quarterback Ava Van Heerde, who rotated with Meier last season to give opposing defenses fits attempting to solve their contrasting but equally effective styles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

It also briefly emerged last fall, as investors rotated away from tech and into stocks that had been lagging behind.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

When we rotated positions, and I took a turn at goalie, I knew he would try to get even.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Poland is not a permanent G20 member but has been invited to the table this year as Washington holds the grouping's rotating presidency.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Campbell said they’ve been rotating out of U.S. utilities and into regional European players.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The network had been scheduled to be the primary TV representative for a rotating pool covering the president Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

That means the storm's rotating centers at different levels of the atmosphere must line up rather than remain tilted away from one another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Thus, she distributed behind her, rotating through the room, a record of her meals, a calendar in rinds and cores.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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