spin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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