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rotate

[roh-tayt, roh-tayt] / ˈroʊ teɪt, roʊˈteɪt /




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When a weak magnetic field is applied, the polarization of those nuclear spins begins to rotate.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

When discussing Microsoft in a follow-up email, Reyna wrote that “even an established AI leader can rotate out as the methodology responds to changing fundamentals, valuation, momentum, and other factors.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The networks rotate coverage of White House presidential events.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Recognising that Sandro Tonali is better in big space facing forwards, we have seen him rotate positions with Archie Gray, who starts at right-back - a sensible tweak.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

He had to rotate it slowly and that was hard to do with his hands so he found a forked stick and stuck it in the sand to put his cooking stick in.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

The Sun's gravitational pull on Mars changes over the course of the planet's seasons because Mars travels along a slightly elliptical orbit and rotates on a tilted axis.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

Mrs. Janssen rotates two of the jars, so I can see them right side up.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

A hurricane is an engine that pulls in heat and is rotated by wind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Boss Didier Deschamps stuck with Ballon d'Or holder Ousmane Dembele on the right and rotated Barcola and Doue, with both men starting four of France's eight World Cup matches, but never in the same game.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

I rotated among brands to lessen the likelihood that these additives would heavily influence my results.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

In later works Archimedes figured out the volumes of parabolas and circles, rotated around a line, which any math student knows are early homework problems in a calculus course.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Disney's coverage also featured a vegetable platter being served and a rotating floor.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Campbell said they’ve been rotating out of U.S. utilities and into regional European players.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The network had been scheduled to be the primary TV representative for a rotating pool covering the president Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

That means the storm's rotating centers at different levels of the atmosphere must line up rather than remain tilted away from one another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Thus, she distributed behind her, rotating through the room, a record of her meals, a calendar in rinds and cores.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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