rotate
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The hackers were able to rotate and zoom the camera, allowing them to monitor Russian helicopters, submarines and ships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
It is understood the make-up of the coaching staff is part of a plan to rotate the coaches – fielding coach Sarah Taylor and fast-bowling coach Tim Southee are also not going to Pakistan.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The four networks along with CNN rotate the coverage which is shared with other news organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
But Keirstead believes that it’s “increasingly likely” that investors will rotate back into high-growth AI infrastructure names.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
As the matter spirals into the black hole, it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction, causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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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
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
I take in the full landscape as it rotates, committing the terrain to my memory.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Theagreement replaces the "Wheel Deal" system, which rotated the gala among major networks like ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Mater Dei rotated three quarterbacks in nonleague play, and coach Raul Lara kept his cards tight to his chest before the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
He also rotated a meaningful portion of his gains into Japanese anime-based collectibles including One Piece and Pokémon trading cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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
Teddy absently rotated the picture to be parallel with the edges of his desk.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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It was then, at the 20-over mark, captain Cummins reverted to Australia's tried and tested - Lyon one end, the quicks rotating at the other.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
"One plausible explanation is that the merger produced a rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron star -- known as a magnetar -- that powered the extended X-ray emission and continued energy injection," said Yin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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
Campbell said they’ve been rotating out of U.S. utilities and into regional European players.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
They convinced me that, according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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