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spindle

[spin-dl] / ˈspɪn dl /




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They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Ellie Knot, of Devon Biodiversity Records Centre, said there were eight species of ermine moth, so it was hard to tell if these were spindle ermine.

From BBC May 13, 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

You might need to first remove a metal or plastic ring on the brush head spindle.

From Seattle Times May 2, 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

By uncovering the hippocampus's role in generating slow waves and sleep spindles, this research expands our understanding of the brain's activity during deep sleep and its impact on memory processing.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2024

Even without the nighttime fights and fireworks, the city’s surfaces shone with glass and metal, the unlikely spindles of party towers casting thin shadows across the island.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

And the baseball imagination has been staggered, stretched, folded, spindled and mutilated for generations.

From Washington Post Oct. 13, 2017

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

His pathetic little legs spindled down from the smart new trousers, and his hands dangled weakly from his thin wrists, albeit his fingers clung tightly to his toy balloon.

From The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

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

Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics.

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

It swept on into a spindling pine wood.

From The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Murray Leinster




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