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[koil] / kɔɪl /




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"So, I kept going back into the doctors and said, 'I think the coil needs to come out'."

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

At the top of the machine is a smaller coil that produces frequencies and harmonics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

During the first several weeks after the eggs were laid, the embryos appeared to coil only dextrally, meaning to the right, as viewed from head to tail.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

"At these stages, the embryos don't have muscles to move with, so different forces are making them coil right-handed," Weber explains.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Wiress nods and scampers over to the water’s edge, where she dunks the coil in the water.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Wartsila also recommended tightening bolts and locking them in place with superglue to improve reliability, particularly involving air leakages, failed silencers and solenoid coils becoming loose.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The frequencies from the BioCharger’s three coils and light from the tubes are said to penetrate the user’s cell walls to balance their cellular makeup, creating relaxation, clarity and, ultimately, fulfilling the user’s desired “recipe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The idea of Guy’s killing Bruno’s detestable father in return is merely a dramatic device to show how remorselessly Guy is drawn down into the dark coils of the conspiracy, against his better self.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He estimates the tune-up can help a household save up to 15% on an electric bill, “especially if coils are dirty and airflow is restricted,” Rogers said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Inside were blue and pink and light brown tubes and coils and odd-shaped pellets which all fit together like a puzzle.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The note was published Friday by strategists Parag Thatte, Binky Chadha and Karthik Prabhu and argued, “the spring is coiled again.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Gruff, bluff and radiating a coiled menace, he’s a marked asset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The performances bear that out, from Benton and Bing’s steady inner light to Compère’s coiled, watchful Tosha, a compelling portrait of skepticism inside this cocoon of warmth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Catherine Jensen Peña, PhD, an assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the study's senior and co-corresponding author, compared DNA inside cells to a coiled slinky.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The sphinxes’ strength, Christopher saw, was dizzying: they leaped like coiled springs upward over the rock, covering twenty feet at a bound.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The 2011 “Snake” dress, an oily, coiling swarm made of black polyvinyl, cotton and tulle, is a Hieronymus Bosch horror, everyone’s nightmare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

"Raul's CT scan of a snake embryo revealed a structure we had never seen before ¾ it was a pillar of gut stretching through the spiral of the coiling body," Miyashita says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Such coiling action often resolves in an explosive move.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

A single bit of sediment coiling in the jar on some slow hydraulic axis.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy


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