curling
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In the pull and twitch of particle affinities—knitting and purling the fabric of the universe— something has not been accounted for that prolongs the Muon’s mortal wobble.
From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2022
James has draped his purling baritone across jazz standards, the Billie Holiday songbook, his own languorous funk tunes and now the compositions of Bill Withers.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2018
With AWD grip the 3.0TT gets out of the hole nicely, with 0-60 mph acceleration of 5.3 seconds, and then it’s a swift, purling course up to and beyond passing speed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2016
“The water’s purling music dimmed amid the crow of a rooster, the cough of an automobile engine,” he writes in one exquisite aside.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2012
When he sat in the grass and listened to the purling stream, the barriers set up in his mind by the stern day went down to ruin.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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Canada - Introductory
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