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revolve

[ri-volv] / rɪˈvɒlv /




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The hobbit calendar is not altogether separate from ours—we revolve around the same sun—but recorded time begins in Year One, when the hobbits arrived in the Shire by crossing the Brandywine River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

We stopped accepting every invitation, and that’s when I realized how much of the friendship had come to revolve around spending.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

For all its fluff, it does occasionally show its teeth, even when much of the story revolves around women whose lives revolve around men.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

In recent weeks, the conflict has come to revolve around the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

He began to revolve on his toes, preparatory to vanishing.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Johnston pointed to Bukele's political persona, which revolves around his iron-fisted crackdown on organized crime in his Cental American country.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The newly identified object orbits this brown dwarf, creating a remarkable arrangement in which a massive satellite circles an object that itself revolves around a star.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

At CarMax, Barr’s strategy revolves around improving CarMax’s digital capabilities, growing its in-house financing arm and reducing its costs to recondition used cars for sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

No, it’s Monday Night Emmys, which is where we’ve landed this year because NBC has Sunday Night Football and, these days, television revolves around the one thing viewers still watch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

His life now revolves around counseling young people and helping them digest their issues.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Part of the scheme allegedly revolved around Elite Model Management, run by John Casablancas, who was a friend of both Epstein’s and Trump’s.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

For 60 years, Cuban life revolved around a small well-thumbed ration book used by families to buy subsidized goods in state-run stores.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Denise's entire life revolved between the two extremes of courage and suffering," Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera wrote, calling that a difficult balance.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

ME: So from the beginning, you knew that you wanted to do something that revolved around creating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

The subjects often revolved around politics, ideas, and cultural issues.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

On Sept. 29, it arranged $30 billion in credit facilities, replacing a $5 billion revolving credit line, which works much like a corporate credit card.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

They are revolving around making the system work for the average voter.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Behind it, a revolving turntable exposed rubble-strewn outdoor expanses and the grim, stony interiors of Macbeth’s castle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

United confirmed it made three further drawdowns from its revolving credit limit, on 29 and 31 July and 28 August, totalling £120m.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Unless you counted sitting on a rainbow-colored unicorn while revolving on a carousel and yelling Giddyup!

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi


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