rotate

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There was little that Ed Barnard, in his first match as Warwickshire captain, could do but rotate his array of seamers in the hope of inducing errors.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

After all, if the hips rotate well, they absorb much of the energy of the swing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

That said, because the market has already started to price in a more pessimistic economic outlook, Goldman also doesn’t think investors should rotate completely toward defensive stocks.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

These vortices form in pairs that rotate in opposite directions, with one spinning clockwise and the other counterclockwise.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

The outermost sphere carried the so-called fixed stars, which always stay in the same positions relative to each other but which rotate together across the sky.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking