Rotate
Rotate verb - To move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis.
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Synonyms for Rotate
Work
Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
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- Ironically, while Mercury does rotate, it does so very slowly, meaning the story could actually work if the suspect just wasn't expecting dawn to come so soon rather than never.
Source: Conviction by Contradiction -
Ciaphas Cain has several atypical worlds, notably a Hailfire Peaks-type that's split into desert and ice planet and doesn't rotate, so work and sleep cycles are a matter of convention.
Source: Single-Biome Planet -
Space Does Not Work That Way: Why on Earth would they want to make the Russian space station rotate before they started docking with it?
Source: Film / Armageddon
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