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rotary engine

NOUN
internal-combustion engine
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During her life she secured more than 25 other permits, including for shoe-manufacturing equipment, improved window frames and sashes and a rotary engine.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

Alongside Young’s RX-3 was Barbachan’s red ’72 Mazda RX-2, while Trujillo brought a vintage Mazda rotary engine pickup truck to the mix, as did Cabral with his ’74 sky-blue REPU.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2025

Mazda said that its prized rotary engine, introduced more than 50 years ago, was being adapted for electric vehicles.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

When he wasn’t looking for a job, Bruce worked on inventions—for 17 years on a design for a rotary engine that contained only three moving parts.

From Time Sep. 8, 2016

Instead of a rhythmic and continuous hum there was at regular intervals a break, caused by one of the cylinders missing explosion at each turn of the rotary engine.

From Cavalry of the Clouds by Bott, Alan



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