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
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
Once that initial stable attachment appears, alignment follows naturally through the geometry of the spindle and the behavior of microtubules.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025
She would pull it through her fingers while the drop spindle, a big top, was spinning on the floor.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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Known as magnetofossils, the microscopic structures come in shapes resembling spearheads, spindles, bullets, and needles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The team hit a speed bump with the Blair House’s front porch spindles, which had been removed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The researchers found that the reindeer's EEG readings during rumination resembled brainwave patterns that are indicative of non-REM sleep including increased slow-wave activity and sleep spindles.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023
So he mounted the stairs, the worn bare treads, the cracked and scaling wall on one side, the balustrade with its intermittent missing spindles on the other.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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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
When we were dressed, we met, according to previous agreement, in the big, square, upper hall, with its spindled railing making a gallery about the quaint and stately staircase.
From A Court of Inquiry by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
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
Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics.
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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