merry-go-round
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Prof Shaw thinks potential benefits include better long-term planning around rolling-stock and timetables, and the removal of "the compensation merry-go-round", where train companies and Network Rail argue about whose fault a delay was.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The story goes that Disney would bring his daughters to the merry-go-round, sit on a bench and dream of a place where adults and children could be entertained together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
There was a real fear, James says, that the merry-go-round would fall into the hands of a private collector, as the carousel, if not officially, has long symbolically belonged to L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
He became a rare symbol of institutional continuity: A regular bit-part character keeping calm and carrying on during a merry-go-round of political change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In his thirties, Liszt became music’s first international star, embarking on a merry-go-round of European tours, where he was known, and treated, as ‘The King of the Piano’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
The carousel is one of the oldest wooden merry-go-rounds in California, and one of just a handful designed by the famous Spillman Engineering Corp. and its predecessor that remain in operation in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
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
Humans’ love of spinning around in circles, especially during childhood, is evidenced by the enduring popularity of playground merry-go-rounds, revolving fun park rides and the irresistible draw of somersaulting down a hill.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
The red-brick building stood on a vast tract of land with immaculate lawns, athletic fields, swings, merry-go-rounds, an Olympicsized swimming pool, tennis courts and rows of brightly leafed trees.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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