- present participle of rotate.
rotating
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Each year the assignments differ according to the tastes and interests of its rotating faculty lineup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
Investors are rotating out of these more risky investments into relative safety in Treasurys and defensive stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Although spin is not literally an electron rotating like a tiny ball, it behaves in certain ways as though the electron has its own angular momentum.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
The rotating platform prevented the trees from receiving a consistent directional signal from gravity, while the surrounding light eliminated cues about which way they should grow.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
After the rise of Fertile Crescent states in the fourth millennium B.C., the center of power initially remained in the Fertile Crescent, rotating between empires such as those of Babylon, the Hittites, Assyria, and Persia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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