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[spin] / spɪn /




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He hops on a Peloton or other spin bike and works out for an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Day two trading in Corteva stock after the Vylor spin is calmer than day one.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the beginning, riders are taken up a slope while facing backward and, at the peak, their seats spin forward as they hurtle toward the ground headfirst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The latter was in reference to a signature finishing move which saw him spin 360 degrees from the top rope of the wrestling ring and land on his opponent.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

She was so pretty, I might have believed she really could spin straw to gold, but I knew that she couldn’t.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The groups can be "echo chambers where everyone just spins each other out about their kids", he says, and suggests having a proper conversation with your child about boundaries, before university starts.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Researchers analyzed the angles at which those particles emerged and used that information to reconstruct the spins of the original Z bosons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

“Neagley,” now streaming from Prime Video, spins off from “Reacher,” born in the novels of Lee Child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Various other videos and comments have been sharing creative spins on their search queries to avoid sponsored posts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The bottom of her light green sundress flows as she spins around.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

Vortices can travel at speeds of tens of kilometers per second, but over the span of a picosecond they move only tens of nanometers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

"This formation is beautiful, but temporary, and has a limited life span," the park service said in 2021.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The result, Wallace said, was a span that eased connections between neighborhoods and “helped us become a community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Today, Lynas runs a hard-rock mine in Australia, and processing operations that span Australia and Malaysia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

I look around and notice that there isn’t just one campfire, but several, constellated across the span of the traffic-jammed freeway, in different clearings.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

There were the frozen steaks, the fraudulent university, the ill-fated airline shuttle, the bankrupt Atlantic City casinos and a short-lived dating show spun off from “The Apprentice” that was canceled after two seasons.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

It spun out of MDU Resources Group in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Waymo spun out of Google in 2016, and has since drastically expanded its service footprint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

MS NOW is now part of Versant, a new company made up of former NBCUniversal cable channels that were spun off by former owner Comcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Red stared at me as I spun, a look of hard determination on her face.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Crucially, with the broader market spinning its wheels of late, surging earnings mean price-to-earnings multiples have dropped.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Peach gave them a ninth-minute lead, spinning through the Wigan defence close to the line after making the initial break as they dominated the opening exchanges.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

AI development is moving ahead at blazing speed—much faster than expected—feeding a growing sense of dread within the companies that it was in danger of spinning out of control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

This small sideways displacement is the optical equivalent of the Magnus effect that makes a spinning table tennis ball curve through the air.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Let me tell you a little something about spinning wheels and Sleeping Beauty.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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