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Example Sentences

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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

Following consumer sentiment, Audi’s product designers intend to restore physical controls, rotary selectors, switches, even gauges, to their central place in the driver’s experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

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

Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond