revolve
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The sound of anti-aircraft guns pierces the sky as conversations at the market revolve around rising prices and the coming winter.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
For all its fluff, it does occasionally show its teeth, even when much of the story revolves around women whose lives revolve around men.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Exercise doesn't have to revolve around the gym.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
His activities this summer now revolve around partnering with the United Nations Development Program to gather global support for Venezuela’s recovery, which is estimated at $6.7 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The wringer is two rubber rollers, the color of pale flesh, that revolve around and around, the clothes squeezing in between them, water and suds squooshing out like juice.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
No, it’s Monday Night Emmys, which is where we’ve landed this year because NBC has Sunday Night Football and, these days, television revolves around the one thing viewers still watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
For all its fluff, it does occasionally show its teeth, even when much of the story revolves around women whose lives revolve around men.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Social life revolves around the Shoreby Club, housed in the restored 1890s mansion originally built for industrialist Samuel Mather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
That puts them at odds with Zillow, whose business model revolves around displaying for-sale and rental listings on the internet from the outset.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Sun was a metaphor for God, around Whom all else revolves.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
One of the most important revolved around the importance of meeting deadlines tied to the distance of orbit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Turkey's interests in Syria historically revolved around preventing a spillover of Kurdish fighters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
In recent years, much of his work has revolved around fighting against the proposed luxury hotel.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
ME: So from the beginning, you knew that you wanted to do something that revolved around creating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
One year later, just a few weeks into junior year, my life at Duke was still a whirlwind of activity, but I finally had a social routine that revolved around my Muslim friends.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
It also adapted Justin Simien’s indie flick “Dear White People” into an in-your-face comedy revolving around the Black experience at an Ivy League college.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
It takes United's overall debt to £1.15bn, made up of the historic debt, which now stands at £578m, the £200m outstanding on its revolving credit facility, and £375m in outstanding transfer fees.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
"The churn is what stresses me out," said one governor in the Midlands, describing it as a "revolving door".
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The Series C investment, which included other venture-capital firms, includes $800 million in equity and a $250 million revolving credit facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
At the restaurant they were seated side by side at a round table with a revolving platter of spareribs and egg rolls and chicken wings, which, they concurred, all tasted the same.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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