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rotary

[roh-tuh-ree] / ˈroʊ tə ri /


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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

But what was once a small memorial is now just the base of an old rotary phone without the handset.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

To the west in Duarte, an old tan rotary phone with a very long cord hangs on a tree in a garden.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

A startup called LiquidPiston has spent more than a decade developing a new kind of rotary engine—including the X Mini shown here—that it says can be both more efficient and compact than traditional piston engines.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

I watched as she used the rotary cutter to cut a pentagon shape, sewed different scraps together around the pentagon’s edges, and ironed after each seam.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

Toward noon the following day the express began to crawl cautiously out, with the rotaries still bucking ahead, through the great snow canyons.

From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson




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