Thesaurus results for GYRATED

gyrated

verb

past tense of gyrate

as in rotated

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 gyrated As the team bounced and gyrated, Infantino ran over and tried to move the president out of the frame. — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 20 July 2026 Artificial intelligence stocks have gyrated on fears of a bubble, raising questions about whether all the dollars flowing into AI chips and data centers can possibly create enough gains in productivity and profits to offset all the investments. — ABC News, 7 July 2026 SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg Not since the darkest days of 1997 have South Korean markets gyrated like a seismometer detecting a big one. — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 The stock market has gyrated for weeks amid uncertainty over the war in the Middle East, which has strangled the global flow of oil and liquified natural gas, with the Strait of Hormuz remaining effectively shut to oil tankers. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026 Markets have gyrated as traders try to discern the outlook for the Fed. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026 Financial markets gyrated Thursday as investors increasingly price in a period of higher inflation due to the ongoing war. — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026 Bad Bunny danced, ran, and gyrated up and down the stage’s short catwalk, wearing a white shirt with wide cuffs (reminiscent of a poet blouse), a vest and pants. — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2026 Staid mortgage behemoths gyrated like meme stocks. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025

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In Cohen's case, his distal femur bone was amputated, and his tibia bone was rotated 180 degrees and fused with what remained of his femur.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
All of the receivers largely rotated between the first and third offensive units.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of rotated

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To its left, sausages revolved on chrome rollers; to its right, a human attendant in a brightly colored uniform looked patient and quizzical.

— Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Still, most gravitate toward the main pool, where the Delano's social scene has revolved for decades.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026

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Singer spun a quality start (6 IP, 2 ER, 6 H, BB, 5 Ks) in his Petco Park start against the Padres in June.

— Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
In recent months, Oaktree Capital Management co-founder Howard Marks spun two side-by-side villas on the market for a cool $70 million, while a $27 million property sought to set a record in the island’s Costa d’en Blanes region.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026

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