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spindle

[spin-dl] / ˈspɪn dl /




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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

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

One widely shared video shows a woman spinning yarn on a traditional hand spindle as a Kashmiri folk song plays in the background.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2025

Previously believed to consist of a compact structure attaching to multiple spindle microtubules, it was instead revealed that the centromere consists of two subdomains.

From Science Daily May 13, 2024

I can weave and spin, or plait matting, but there is no money for spindle, cotton or fibre.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Without the protein, the parasites failed to build proper spindles, which prevented them from dividing correctly.

From Science Daily Mar. 5, 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

The restaurant chain, which has over 600 locations across the United States, had sometime last year posted a series of photos of people sitting in an oversized rocking chair decked out with rainbow spindles.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2023

I hold my finger over the button, listening to the soft hum in the speakers, the faint squeak of the spindles winding the tape, waiting for her voice to return.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

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

And beyond this he came to a many-coloured little street out of Bagdad, overhung with gay balconies, vivacious with spindled towers and minarets, and small reticent windows, out of which veiled ladies would glance.

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon

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

At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had spindling wire wheels, an exposed engine, a radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spindling operator without hesitation walked over to him and laid his hand on the man’s shoulder.

From The Mountain Divide by Both, Armand




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