rotatory

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So, when it comes to rotating players, is it really any wonder that managers are increasingly choosing to use domestic cup competitions as rotatory playgrounds?

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

It has been found to stand well for the linings of rotatory puddling furnaces, where, under long-continued heating, it changes into a substance as hard and infusible as natural emery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

I’m all right,” replied he, wishing that everyone and everything were not so nebulous and rotatory.

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.

The condition of the rotatory system might now be described as that of equilibrium.

From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James

Campbell and Moore have found spectroscopic evidence of internal rotatory motion in a large proportion of the planetary nebul�.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck