Thesaurus results for ROTATIONS

rotations

noun

plural of rotation

as in spins

a rapid turning about on an axis or central point the Earth completes a single rotation around its axis in approximately 24 hours

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Recent Examples of rotations Residents Medical arranges rotations with careful attention to specialty alignment. —

Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 3 June 2026 Christian Petersen / Getty Images NBC News analyzed the average ages of NBA champions’ playoff rotations since 2016, and San Antonio would be the youngest team to win a title — out-young-ing last year’s Oklahoma City Thunder. —

Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 3 June 2026 Hubbard receiving 60% of the share, while Brooks (and possibly Etienne) take the rest of the touches would be a plausible scenario based on head coach Dave Canales’ previous running back rotations. —

Mike Kaye june 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 June 2026 Living quarters included bunk beds, a small kitchen, restrooms, and communal areas where crews spent 24-hour rotations waiting for orders that everyone hoped would never arrive. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026 The posts criticizing White's coaching decisions, rotations and accountability picked up real traction across Clark-heavy corners of X after the blowout. —

Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026 Workers who cleaned rooms and prepared or delivered meals within the university health system completed 112 hours of live lectures and labs and 440 hours of clinical rotations. —

Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026 The changes made by Hancock transformed him from a depth starter to a reliable starter in one of baseball’s best rotations. —

Andrea Arcadipane, New York Times, 29 May 2026 Barros said sustained drone strikes at operational depth can help set the conditions for Ukrainian infantry to retake ground, not by producing sudden breakthroughs, but by gradually exhausting Russian forces, disrupting rotations and weakening resupply. —

David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

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Most of the solid material involves lasers and optical guides; the computation is done using the nuclear spins of atoms held suspended by an array of laser light.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
The business also has made Space Shuttle drag parachutes for the orbiter, and parachutes that deploy from the tails of F-22 and F-35 military jets to break them from unrecoverable stalls or spins.

— Pat Maio, Oc Register, 29 May 2026