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




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Software names have experienced relief rallies in the past few months, but those gains largely came when steep selloffs in chip stocks led investors to rotate into the software sector instead.

From MarketWatch Aug. 30, 2026

Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr. rotate their appearances in the lone liberal seat on the program.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Traditionally, physicists have investigated nuclear structure using relatively low-energy experiments, including measurements of how atomic nuclei rotate and vibrate.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

It is tradition that the UN's top job should rotate between different regions.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

He put the Sun at the center, made the Earth rotate on its axis once a day and orbit the Sun once a year.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Cundiff compares the effect to a lighthouse that sweeps a beam across the horizon as its lamp rotates.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

It’s about the fact that the Lotus’s polar axis runs exactly through the driver’s inboard hip, so that the machine rotates around them and not some invisible pivot point, just off-center.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Guessing I did by the way Jupiter rotates in her chair with her eyebrows raised, and Courtney continues to stare at the TV but blinks rapidly for a few seconds before clearing his throat.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is set to extend its record highs as investors rotated away from chip stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 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

Researchers have developed a way to make twisted oxide materials over much larger areas while maintaining precise control over how their layers are rotated.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

Inside the door, great metal cogs wheeled and clanked as the symbol rotated until it was facing the right way, until it was correct.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

With the United States holding the rotating G20 presidency, Washington is trying to rally partners towards greater economic pressure on Iran and find ways to boost growth.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

As gravity pulls those enriched clouds together, they can form rotating disks around young stars, similar to the disk of material that eventually produced our own Solar System.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

Working with Venn, Woolley and Woodley, Zucker devised the show to include a rotating cast of clowns, and comedic performers from around the world, including L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The front four take up fluid positions, rotating between themselves and making runs off the ball.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

He had been rotating his shoulders as if he were trying to shed his own skin.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville




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