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
The UN's annual climate gatherings rotate among regional blocs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Because of this motion, LRO must wait for a particular location to rotate into a position where it can be observed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
“From here,” he’ll say, “you punch out into a side kick, or you can rotate your hips and swing around into a lead-leg roundhouse.”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
Traditionally, the UN's top job rotates between different regions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 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
Rae rotates in her seat to look at me.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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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
Researchers have developed a way to make twisted oxide materials over much larger areas while maintaining precise control over how their layers are rotated.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
European stocks added to a clutch of record highs in the last session, as investors rotated out of under-fire chip stocks and toward more defensive sectors on the continent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
My teacher rotated the arm and shoulder outward as he pushed, trying to coax the shoulder back into place.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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Catnip Coalition in Burbank is a vintage shop with cat-themed decor, two shop cats named Franklin and Nigel and a rotating crew of adoptable cats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
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 United States holds the rotating G20 presidency.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
To reproduce the fading flares astronomers actually observe, the researchers needed what Bandopadhyay called "a new ingredient": a star that was already rotating rapidly before its first encounter with the black hole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Oresme took the idea of a rotating earth seriously, and thus prefigures Copernicus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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