rotator
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Researchers are now trying to understand how this galaxy became what scientists call a "slow rotator" so quickly.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
After high school, I signed a minor-league contract but tore my rotator cuff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
That injury, which Phillips later said included a tear in the back of his rotator cuff, caused him to miss the early weeks of this past season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
“I think people can understand a torn rotator cuff,” Grace says, “but they can’t necessarily understand pelvic hematoma until they’ve had one.”
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Marge’s arthritis makes scrubbing a torture; another woman has to see a physical therapist for her rotator cuff.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
"The pentiptycene rotators utilized in this work have several pocket sites," commented Jin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023
NSF expects the pilot to affect 50 to 60 rotators over the next year.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 8, 2016
These rapid rotators spin so fast that their shapes are “flattened” into what we call oblate spheroids.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Do not forget, you captains of men, when you grease and trim your pumps and compressors and rotators, that the human machine needs some tending also.
From Danger! and Other Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
The muscles most frequently at fault are the sterno-mastoid and trapezius of one side, and the posterior rotators of the opposite side.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
