merry-go-round

The merry-go-round has reached such unsafe speeds that fewer than half the coaches who will kick off their seasons this week have completed at least one Premier League season in their current postings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Beyond the merry-go-round and before the Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Ian Bowen does business in a snug kiosk overstuffed with souvenirs, guidebooks and replica highway signs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

On Monday, the public inquiry identified "catastrophic" parental and local authority failings, with a "merry-go-round" of referrals, assessments and "hand-offs" between agencies failing to stop the "predictable and preventable" attack.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

I’m not sure how to step off the merry-go-round.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026

In the distance the tootles of the merry-go-round were a swirl of colors.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Angular momentum is familiar in everyday life through spinning objects like bicycle wheels or merry-go-rounds, but at the atomic scale it is deeply connected to magnetism.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026

For years, Scottish football used to look at managerial merry-go-rounds in English football and decry it as a basket case environment, Now, it’s every bit as volatile in this country, if not worse.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024

Human children indulge in spinner bowls at playgrounds and in merry-go-rounds, carousels and carnival rides that spin them through the air.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2023

Three hours-plus seemed like a trip to Mars and back as we shuttled between the concession stands, merry-go-rounds and playground equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

There were toy automobiles and trucks, windmills and merry-go-rounds, airplanes, boats and a lot of others, mostly run on batteries.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien