rotate
verb (used with object)
to cause to turn around an axis or center point; revolve.
rotates
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present tense formof rotate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes is a job for the World Meteorological Organization, which rotates them out every six years and retires them after a given storm causes too much destruction.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Traditionally, the UN's top job rotates between different regions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Cundiff compares the effect to a lighthouse that sweeps a beam across the horizon as its lamp rotates.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
It’s about the fact that the Lotus’s polar axis runs exactly through the driver’s inboard hip, so that the machine rotates around them and not some invisible pivot point, just off-center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Then DC rotates around and follows a red line over to a small cylinder.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
