spindle
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They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
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
Then she slots the record on the spindle of Etiennes electrophone.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“I could’ve just gone online to Home Depot, cut their spindles in half and thrown them up on the porch,” Cain said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The team hit a speed bump with the Blair House’s front porch spindles, which had been removed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
As the light dimmed, the young falcon walked into her elaborate room with its curls and spindles and lay down.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
There is a lot of brown spindled wood in its make-up, both inside and outside.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
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
Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was the little window that he knew opened on the poor vegetable garden, with its spindling corn, and its beans for soup and coffee.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
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