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
Nvidia — Shares of the chipmaker added 0.5% in midday trading, after gyrating earlier in the session.
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024
His Williams is always in motion: winking, gyrating, climbing in people’s laps.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Cue the topless men in fireman hats gyrating to save the venue.
—Charley Ross, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
Billionaire Elon Musk owns Twitter, now X, and has shouted and gyrated his unconditional support for Donald Trump and made huge donations or expenditures in Trump’s favor in hopes of winning fat government contracts and a plum position in a Trump administration.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024
His Williams is always in motion: winking, gyrating, climbing in people’s laps.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Cue the topless men in fireman hats gyrating to save the venue.
—Charley Ross, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
Billionaire Elon Musk owns Twitter, now X, and has shouted and gyrated his unconditional support for Donald Trump and made huge donations or expenditures in Trump’s favor in hopes of winning fat government contracts and a plum position in a Trump administration.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
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The video in question surfaced on Reddit, and shows the console being rotated 180-degrees, the Joy-Cons snapping into place, and a screen attachment connecting to the bottom USB-C port.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Harter rotates between his three go-to flavors: Cherry, Strawberry and Mint — without the chocolate chips.—
Jordan Greene,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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The restaurant on the 47th floor of the Marriott Marquis in Times Square — the city’s only revolving restaurant and bar — is reopening under the management of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group.—
Tanya Sichynsky,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Essay The Agony and the Ecstasy of the West Edmonton Mall Max Fawcett On learning to love the abominable mix of Soviet brutalism and unrelenting American capitalism around which Edmonton revolves.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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Recording stops and starts without a hitch; the joystick movements instantly spin the motors; the rear trigger reorients the phone; and the zoom dial zooms the camera view when rotated.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
18 Feb. 2025
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Once water is spinning on its own, add eggs, one at a time.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Gyrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gyrate. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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