rotary
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Most of the script’s energy goes to talking about typesetting and rotary press flongs, but right before the end credits roll, “Le Faux Soir” blurts out its timeliness about combating Le Fox News with comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Inside the box is an old rotary telephone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Next to the black rotary phone, which used to belong to Bozeman’s mother, a pink rock appeared one day with the words, “You are Beautiful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
That’s prompted more companies to take a fresh look at old combustion tech, including the rotary engine, and figure out new ways for gas power and battery power to work together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
They were rotary latches with wings for your thumb.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
But he also sees a unique set of challenges in Boston, pointing to a city that’s “not gridded” and has “windy streets, poor weather, lots of roundabouts or rotaries, crazy intersections.”
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2018
Little details would amaze him, like touch-tone phones that replaced the bulky rotaries everyone had used when he went away.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2015
Farther south along Main, past a couple more rotaries, you’ll find Manchester Village.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2014
Signs and public-service announcements have taught Americans how to negotiate their new rotaries.
From Economist ● Oct. 3, 2013
The pilots are standing by to start the rotaries the instant we lurch.
From The Sky Trap by Frank Belknap Long
Vocabulary lists containing rotary
"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 1
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