spindle
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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
Words become a texture of stasis, as when “winding” and “whirring” are repeated multiple times to describe Thorn Rose’s climb to the turret where she finds the fatal spindle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
A new company was found, the fabrication truly European: spindle from the Czech Republic, cables and curved glass from Italy, capsules from France, the main structure from the Netherlands.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
Hollister pulled a piece of twine from a spindle attached to his counter while Emily rearranged more magnetic words.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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Without the protein, the parasites failed to build proper spindles, which prevented them from dividing correctly.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026
Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
By uncovering the hippocampus's role in generating slow waves and sleep spindles, this research expands our understanding of the brain's activity during deep sleep and its impact on memory processing.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Mammals show a certain type of burstlike signals in the brain, known as sleep spindles, when we're in a non-REM stage of deep slumber.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2023
There were also three magic spindles, made out of the Eden tree, and two inferior swords for Percy and Bon.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Matted in dead leaves, it wound past snatches of green fern that spindled down the hillsides.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022
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
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
His pathetic little legs spindled down from the smart new trousers, and his hands dangled weakly from his thin wrists, albeit his fingers clung tightly to his toy balloon.
From The Mountain Girl by Erskine, Payne
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
At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings.
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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Nothing but a bedstead, with high, spindling posts, was there.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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