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
Multiple video cameras captured the dynamic choreo on giant screens behind the stage as McRae and her entourage danced with canes, strutted down a catwalk, seductively gyrated on moving platforms, and even pole-danced.
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Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Sep. 2025
Recession forecasts gyrated wildly in the first half of the year, as outlined in a previous column.
—George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
There’s jumping and gyrating; people crash into one another like waves onto the shore, dizzy with joy.
—Jason Parham, Wired News, 4 Sep. 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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Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Sep. 2025
Recession forecasts gyrated wildly in the first half of the year, as outlined in a previous column.
—George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
There’s jumping and gyrating; people crash into one another like waves onto the shore, dizzy with joy.
—Jason Parham, Wired News, 4 Sep. 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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Aside from these roles, the show uses two casts of 150 people who rotate each week.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
12 Jan. 2026
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Following Kotb's departure, the fourth hour was retitled Today With Jenna & Friends, and saw Hager joined by a rotating cast of A-listers and colleagues to help her anchor the program.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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The vases also reflect his perspective that design should slow down and allow consumers to hold onto items for longer than the fashion cycle typically revolves today.—
Sarah Jones,
Footwear News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Shinjuku Station revolving sushi bar will set up shop in the Grande Promenade shopping center in University City, per the restaurant’s website, though an official opening date wasn’t announced.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Jan. 2026
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After more than a week of silence on the slopes, the lifts are spinning again at Telluride Ski Resort.—
Spencer Wilson,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Far from turning on her, the audience awards her with a head-spinning third applause break in just 50 seconds.—
John Roy,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Gyrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gyrate. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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