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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
Canales likely doesn’t want to cause an issue, especially this early in the season, by mandating how the defensive play-caller handles his various rotations and depth chart.
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Mike Kaye
september 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Airlines warn that the disruption could cascade throughout the day, affecting connections and aircraft rotations across Europe.
—Amanda Castro
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
This involves a deliberate strategy of job rotations, stretch assignments, coaching, and board exposure.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
While mopping, its spinning pads apply 12 Newtons of downward pressure and spin at up to 200 rotations per minute (RPM).
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
With seasonal breaks and fallow-field crop rotations, unused fields could theoretically transition into wetlands for many weeks and months of the year.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
This explains why the model can maintain consistency for several minutes but struggles with full 360-degree rotations—small errors in pattern matching accumulate over many frames until the geometric constraints can no longer maintain coherence.
—ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
My last thought, here, beware of the endless gibberish about the hazards of rotations.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
One of his first rotations was infectious disease.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Mike Kaye
september 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Airlines warn that the disruption could cascade throughout the day, affecting connections and aircraft rotations across Europe.
—Amanda Castro
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
This involves a deliberate strategy of job rotations, stretch assignments, coaching, and board exposure.
—Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
While mopping, its spinning pads apply 12 Newtons of downward pressure and spin at up to 200 rotations per minute (RPM).
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
With seasonal breaks and fallow-field crop rotations, unused fields could theoretically transition into wetlands for many weeks and months of the year.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
This explains why the model can maintain consistency for several minutes but struggles with full 360-degree rotations—small errors in pattern matching accumulate over many frames until the geometric constraints can no longer maintain coherence.
—ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
My last thought, here, beware of the endless gibberish about the hazards of rotations.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
One of his first rotations was infectious disease.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rotations
Noun
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The lasers converge and somehow create what looks like a circular portal to another planet which shimmers and spins.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Manon Bannerman and Megan Meiyok Skiendiel put differing spins on conical bras as outerwear, one peeking from under a blazer and the other over a figure-hugging dress.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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Maybach’s steering wheel is massively proportioned, a big hoop, reminding of wheels in my 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s luxury cars.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Ride a Bike Enjoy the best of Grand Teton’s fall foliage on two wheels instead of four.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Remove the sides of the pan, transfer rolls to a plate and sprinkle with cilantro.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Place 1/2 of the pepper jack cheese slices across the bottom half of the rolls.—
Mary Claire Britton,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Indeed, Morton would already be at 200 if one of his wild curves hadn't been so effective last month.—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Gentle sweeps and curves are better than straight rows that merely repeat the legal lines of your property boundaries.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
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Kurzweil’s singularity parallels ideas from Italian and Russian futurists amid the electrical and mechanical revolutions that took place at the turn of the 20th century.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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In particular, revolutions like special relativity and general relativity, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and the Big Bang and cosmic inflation completely overthrew our prior picture of how things actually behave.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Rotations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotations. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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