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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

These spindle microtubules are responsible for pulling the chromatids apart and thus separating the two sister chromatids.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024

“The jar has a spindle through the middle. It’s resting gently on the front wheel. So—” He motions to Justin.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

"This finding suggests that sleep spindles play an important role in the consolidation of complex associations, which underlie the completion of memories of whole events," says Professor Luciana Besedovsky, lead researcher of the study.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

Mammals show a certain type of burstlike signals in the brain, known as sleep spindles, when we're in a non-REM stage of deep slumber.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2023

If they were too little to reach the spindles, they stood on boxes.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

They interviewed the prodigy�a spindling girl of twelve, physically immature, with solemn eyes, a quick tongue, a shrill treble voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains� The Oriental Giles.

From Time Magazine Archive

A spindling, overgrown boy rose fumbling at his throat.

From Mountain Blood A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph