rota

Example Sentences

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Amissah and his Ghanaian crewmates had devised a secret rota to get some sleep.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

On Mondays, Tickner is on a cover rota, meaning she may have to take over a different lesson to that which she had planned to teach.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Last month BBC Scotland News revealed that a whistleblowing investigation had found mothers and newborn babies came to harm because of rota shortages and a "toxic" culture at the ERI's obstetrics triage and assessment unit.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

Why not look at this sun-splashed sanctuary the way the British Open has St. Andrews in the rotation — or rota — of courses?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025

As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the rota Fortunae, or wheel of fortune, a central concept in De Consolatione Philosophiae, the philosophical work which had laid the foundation for medieval thought.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole