rotate
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Software names have experienced relief rallies in the past few months, but those gains largely came when steep selloffs in chip stocks led investors to rotate into the software sector instead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr. rotate their appearances in the lone liberal seat on the program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
It is tradition that the UN's top job should rotate between different regions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The suit used braces to support the legs, motors to help rotate joints, weight and motion sensors and a battery pack.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But Sojourner has six independent wheels that rotate reasonably fast.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
Stars in a very close binary can become tidally locked, meaning each star rotates on its axis at the same rate that the pair orbits one another.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
SGX’s derivatives platform is deepening as a regional risk management venue as macroeconomic risks increase and capital rotates to Asia, the analyst says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Traditionally, the UN's top job rotates between different regions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
But she acts like the whole school rotates around her, and according to a handful of her close friends, it does.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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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
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
They recorded how the sprinklers rotated, observed the water moving both inside and outside the devices, and measured the torque or twisting force produced when the sprinklers were prevented from turning.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
We kept most things from the old people, but sometimes they caught on and then we rotated the hot seat.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Pro tip: Birch also hosts Pepe’s Oyster Bar, a monthly pop-up named for chef Kyle Knall’s late father, featuring a rotating menu of hot and cold oyster and seafood preparations.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The company now runs a 125,000-square-foot, three-soundstage facility with roughly 220 employees producing rotating sets — restaurants, school hallways, a courtroom, jail visitation rooms — designed to mimic a small town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
With the United States holding the rotating G20 presidency, Washington is also rallying partners towards greater economic pressure on Iran and finding ways to boost growth.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
As gravity pulls those enriched clouds together, they can form rotating disks around young stars, similar to the disk of material that eventually produced our own Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
We stood on a platform with the module slowly rotating around us.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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