rotation
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The 2-3-2-3 shape generally stays the same but there is rotation between the wingers, full-backs and central midfielders.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The light design of the rotors also means that if there is an engine failure, the light blades can lose their momentum in rotation quickly, Cress said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
At the beginning of the year, the rotation bore the brunt of the injury bug, with left-hander Blake Snell and right-hander Tyler Glasnow missing months of the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
They and others benefited from a rotation out of the chip makers supplying AI hardware and toward the customers whose data centers need semiconductors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Eventually, it is considered so common that even lower-end parents may not want it, whereby it falls out of the rotation entirely.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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It was hard for her to stomach the fact that had things not collapsed in Afghanistan, she would have been four semesters from completing medical school and beginning her practical rotations at a hospital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
These include keeping soil permanently covered, applying compost, using more diverse crop rotations and reducing the use of mineral fertilizers and pesticides.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Navy aims for six- or seven-month rotations for carriers, but deployments regularly run nine months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The rotations of these wide triangles make it hard for opponents to know who they should be picking up.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Other Twelve Towns Uncles had been doing rotations since the Cursed Toads were discovered, but it was a lot of work.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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