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pivot

[piv-uht] / ˈpɪv ət /




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Meta, on the other hand, could pivot away from developing their own proprietary models and toward open-source work.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Wall Street is divided over potential cloud pivot.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

Before that she spent a decade at Meta, where she championed the company's pivot to video.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

“As he goes through the next couple days, if he doesn’t feel great, we’ll pivot, and we’re prepared to pivot,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Tommen's opponent was a child-sized leather warrior stuffed with straw and mounted on a pivot, with a shield in one hand and a padded mace in the other.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The median Fed official in the “dot plot” leans toward one rate hike by the end of 2026 and quickly pivots to pencil in one rate cut in 2027.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

The panel pivots down on four hinged arms—but not out of the way.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

But it’s a testament to how even the slightest of pivots can reframe a story, making it all the more personal without drawing explicit attention to itself.

From Salon May 25, 2026

After he’s ousted from his data-scraping firm, he pivots to create a new unethical startup called P.I.N.A.T.A.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

The dragon pivots its head in my direction, then lets out a furious shriek.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

As the World Cup approached, some of Polymarket’s creators pivoted to filming themselves placing trades on the company’s recently launched U.S. app, which is regulated by the CFTC.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Reid pivoted to acting on television and landed a career-defining role in 1978 as Venus Fly Trap in “WKRP in Cincinnati.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Relatively early in the conflict, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emeriates pivoted to exporting more of their oil through existing pipelines.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

UniQure has since pivoted to bet its future on a pipeline led by AMT-130.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

He pivoted so that he was facing directly at me.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Super Micro is pivoting away from selling individual components toward turnkey server racks.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

So I shifted gears, pivoting into what is called “strengths-based” pedagogy — in this instance, meaning a discussion of how enslaved people contributed to American environmentalism as we know it today.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

Points, too, for the solid casting, from the leads’ tricky pivoting from openness to caginess, to the criminally underseen Wasikowska, who navigates maternal complexities of worry and compassion that confound easy pigeonholing.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

They used a mouse model that mimics ACL tears, a common sports injury seen in activities such as soccer, basketball, and skiing that involve sudden stopping, pivoting, or jumping.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

Mark watched in fascination as a large, square-shaped hatch on the bottom of the Berg began to open, pivoting on hinges to lower like a ramp.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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