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as in to revolve
to move in circles around an axis or center
with mirrors on three sides, she rotated all around to see how the dress looked on her
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Recent Examples of rotate
Their projects included testing electrolytes in different drinks, identifying ingredients in sunscreen and designing solar panels that rotate to capture the most energy.
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
Winds rotate in the opposite direction around low-pressure systems, and since Los Angeles was located smack in between the zones of high and low pressure, the result was like a baseball stuck into a pitching machine.
—Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Now research is finding that specifically working nights and rotating shift schedules can leave people susceptible to depression and poor health.
—Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Turkish Airlines’ inflight menu features a rotating selection of dishes carefully crafted to reflect the season's best ingredients.
—Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
Winds rotate in the opposite direction around low-pressure systems, and since Los Angeles was located smack in between the zones of high and low pressure, the result was like a baseball stuck into a pitching machine.
—Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Now research is finding that specifically working nights and rotating shift schedules can leave people susceptible to depression and poor health.
—Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Turkish Airlines’ inflight menu features a rotating selection of dishes carefully crafted to reflect the season's best ingredients.
—Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Thanks to pandemic and production delays, however, training turned into a long, grueling process.Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
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At the very beginning of the app’s popularity in 2020, this discovery capability turned regular posters into household names and industry staples.CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
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Narwal also announced a trio of other robovacs, including a Freo Z10 robovac with mopping pads that revolve 180 times per minute, an all-in-one Narwal S30 mopping robovac with self-cleaning features, and a more affordable Freo Pro robovac-mop hybrid.Emma Roth, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
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The company relies on revolving promissory note agreements with its president and a principal stockholder for funding.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2024
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The authors ultimately identified two distinct forms of equilibrium that enable steady-state hula hooping: a synchronization process causing the hoop to twirl at the same frequency as the gyration motion, directing its center outward, and the hoop's vertical positioning.Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025
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Today’s political heavy hitters are just as likely to twirl tagliatelle at Officina or spoon paella at Spanish showstopper Del Mar in the trendy Wharf district.Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
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Because Mercury spins on an axis with a miniscule tilt of just 0.01 degrees—almost perpendicular to its plane of orbit around the sun—the rims of all four of these polar craters cast permanent shadows within their depths.Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
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DeRozan drove to the middle of the lane and spun to the same left side of the key.Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
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James Nolan of FanSided recently predicted the Mets would swing a blockbuster trade for San Diego Padres ace Dylan Cease after whiffing on Roki Sasaki.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Bitcoin has swung wildly after robust U.S. jobs data sapped expectations of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and sent stock markets spiraling.Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Joao Pedro twisted an ankle in training on Wednesday, ruling him out of the cup tie and possibly longer depending on the results of a scan.Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Yet the increasingly normalized and casual use of the slur in the digital public square is so far removed from this framework of basic empathy, and from the euphemistic origins of the expression — a clinical term twisted for the purposes of disparagement — that the appeal to decency doesn’t apply.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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This exercise bike offers streaming services comparable to Peloton and Nordic (though not quite as dynamic) and also features a 24-inch curved HD touchscreen that swivels for easy viewing during your workouts.Jennifer Shanker, Flow Space, 16 Jan. 2025
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Thirty new holes have been created specifically to challenge golf’s best, each culminating in a real-world green area that swivels and oscillates to set up distinct surfaces.Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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In early January and up until last week, reports swirled in Colombia that Fuad Char, 87, a successful entrepreneur, former politician, and principal owner of Junior, was negotiating with Rodriguez.Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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Swift and 35-year-old Kelce's relationship has captured the public's attention since rumors of their romance began swirling in the fall of 2023.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Rotate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotate. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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