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
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
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
His portrait in solid gold, Ranofer thought as he watched the old man’s scarred hand slap the stone weights of the spindle around and around.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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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
“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
Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The study demonstrates that slow waves and sleep spindles can originate from axons within the hippocampus' cornu ammonis 3 region.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
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
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
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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At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But, as a rule, very high temperatures induce a spindling growth.
From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by F. M. Hexamer
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