as in to rotate
to move in circles around an axis or center
the gyroscope got its name for the way the disk inside the instrument gyrates around an axis
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Recent Examples of gyrate
As recently as April, the markets gyrated in response to Trump's tariff announcements.
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 July 2025
After warming up for about 40 seconds, this firework box emits a bright red plume while gyrating and spraying sparks from three horizontal streams.
—Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
Trump has repeatedly pressed Powell publicly and privately to lower interest rates while chafing at the chairman’s linkage of the president’s gyrating trade levies to inflation and U.S. economic uncertainty.
—Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 19 June 2025
These electrical waveforms—accelerated a thousand times—induced oscillations of the magnetization in the stacked nano-magnets, which started to gyrate like a compass.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2017
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 July 2025
After warming up for about 40 seconds, this firework box emits a bright red plume while gyrating and spraying sparks from three horizontal streams.
—Ethan Wolin, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2025
Trump has repeatedly pressed Powell publicly and privately to lower interest rates while chafing at the chairman’s linkage of the president’s gyrating trade levies to inflation and U.S. economic uncertainty.
—Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 19 June 2025
These electrical waveforms—accelerated a thousand times—induced oscillations of the magnetization in the stacked nano-magnets, which started to gyrate like a compass.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gyrate
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The Patriots have Williams, Christian Barmore, Khyiris Tonga, Joshua Farmer and Cory Durden to rotate in the middle of the defense.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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Slice the dough as directed, rotating the roll frequently to avoid creating a flat side.—
Jessica Saari Christensen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Oct. 2025
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At the back of a buzzy canteen, there are a pair of meeting spaces, whose names revolve with the latest academy players to have started a Premier League game for Newcastle.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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In Mexico, the Day of the Dead is celebrated to honor the lives of ancestors and acknowledge the ever-revolving cycle of life and death.—
Sarah Buder,
AFAR Media,
8 Oct. 2025
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Max spins Schadenfreude circles around Christian before towing him back to the boat with another Jet Ski.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2025
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The material is washed, processed locally into balls, flakes and/or pellets that meet European industrial standards, and then spun into a high-grade thread, without blending with virgin plastic or chemical additives.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Gyrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gyrate. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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