spindle
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They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
From re-creating each staircase spindle to replicating 19th-century windows, a relocated Queen Anne gets a family-friendly update that honors its past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
The researchers discovered that ARK1 plays a central role in organizing the spindle, the cellular structure that separates genetic material so new parasite cells can form.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026
Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
There was just enough moonlight for us to be able to see the tape winding around and around on its spindle.
From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold
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“I could’ve just gone online to Home Depot, cut their spindles in half and thrown them up on the porch,” Cain said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Also, prolonged vibration changes the reactivity of the neuromuscular spindles and alters the signal sent to the brain."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Above their bent heads, huge spindles pound steam- powered fists.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The illusions in two-dimensional imagery are contradicted by flat surfaces that he’s folded, spindled and otherwise mutilated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018
And the baseball imagination has been staggered, stretched, folded, spindled and mutilated for generations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2017
This enterprise came about prior to Purdue being juridically spindled into creating an abuse proof reformulation.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2015
Edwin Jackson folded, spindled and mutilated his former team in the 's home opener — an impressive feat even if those Rays are 0-6 with a .146 team batting average.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 7, 2011
The chair-legs were spindled out as long as stilts, and the boy sat perched a-top of them, like a cloud, in the corner of the roof.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dior’s saddle bags, spindling stiletto heels, Tiffany & Co.’s heart-shaped charm bracelets — all visual elements of Paris Hilton’s “rich bitch” phenomenon — heralded a trend for brazen excess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
Take private classes in felting, drop spindling, rug hooking, natural dyeing and basic weaving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2015
It had spindling wire wheels, an exposed engine, a radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then, even more than today, the citizenry instinctively loathed the computer and its injunctions against folding, spindling and mutilating.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She might be "spindling," but she looked intelligent.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
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