rotate
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Johnson said he might rotate who plays on the line based on what a possession needs, but that their best 11 includes Middagh on the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
The tighter the binary, the shorter the orbital period and the faster a tidally locked star must rotate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
It is tradition that the UN's top job should rotate between different regions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
She can tilt and rotate it in any direction exactly as if she were holding it in her hand.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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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
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
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
When the market rotates, everything you own falls at once.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The women have a schedule that rotates once a week: cooking, laundry, cleaning, washing the floors.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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While the trio have been named in the Test squad, they may be rotated in favour of Baker, Essex pace bowler Sam Cook and Derbyshire spinner Shoaib Bashir.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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
I was weighing my options when the hinges on the door rotated.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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The United States holds the rotating G20 presidency.
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
Working with Venn, Woolley and Woodley, Zucker devised the show to include a rotating cast of clowns, and comedic performers from around the world, including L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Gianni: At 1% owned Rushworth is worth a look if you're going with two cheap rotating goalkeepers.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Restorers also discovered a sophisticated set of gears on the crank in the tube that enabled the crew rotating the crank to propel the sub faster by moving water rapidly through the tube.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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