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[roh-tayt, roh-tayt] / ˈroʊ teɪt, roʊˈteɪt /




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As investors rotate out of artificial-intelligence stocks, Berkshire Hathaway shares have risen 5% over the past month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

But when investors get nervous about the outlook of the artificial-intelligence trade or the health of the economy, they often rotate into defensive sectors, such as consumer staples.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The New Zealander also conceded he would have to rotate his squad for the T20 leg, given England's schedule in a busy winter of five separate overseas tours.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Navy P-8A Poseidon at Keflavik Air Base, one of the maritime patrol aircraft that rotate through Iceland to hunt and track submarines across the North Atlantic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Og set the dance floor’s gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club’s invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes is a job for the World Meteorological Organization, which rotates them out every six years and retires them after a given storm causes too much destruction.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Stars in a very close binary can become tidally locked, meaning each star rotates on its axis at the same rate that the pair orbits one another.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

Traditionally, the UN's top job rotates between different regions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

It’s about the fact that the Lotus’s polar axis runs exactly through the driver’s inboard hip, so that the machine rotates around them and not some invisible pivot point, just off-center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The shuttle rotates away from the launch port and is lifted back to its docking unit.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2007 indicated that the asteroid's surface warmed and cooled rapidly as it rotated through sunlight and darkness.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

A hurricane is an engine that pulls in heat and is rotated by wind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The ceremony has rotated among the four broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

While the trio have been named in the Test squad, they may be rotated in favour of Baker, Essex pace bowler Sam Cook and Derbyshire spinner Shoaib Bashir.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The people in the video rotated, but the message was a variation on the same theme: some friendly face was going to tell him that things were all right.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The pool is a rotating group of journalists that travel with the president and provide coverage to other outlets, due to limited space.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

"One plausible explanation is that the merger produced a rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron star -- known as a magnetar -- that powered the extended X-ray emission and continued energy injection," said Yin.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

As a result, Microsoft is rotating people through more areas of the company faster, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Campbell said they’ve been rotating out of U.S. utilities and into regional European players.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

He had been rotating his shoulders as if he were trying to shed his own skin.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville


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