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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

Once that initial stable attachment appears, alignment follows naturally through the geometry of the spindle and the behavior of microtubules.

From Science Daily Dec. 10, 2025

I look down at the comic book in my hand, which I’ve managed to spindle without even realizing it.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

“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

Another is sleep spindles, brief bursts of rapid brain activity that are believed to help the brain strengthen and store memories.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 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 good fairy queens consulted with the king and my father, then disappeared with the child. No one has seen her since. We assume she’s being protected from Malevolent, hidden away from spindles and curses.”

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

The two things spindled upward, side by side, yet separately, in his mental vision; then they twisted and twined themselves together.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

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

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

At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two masterful little bushy side whiskers bristled out from under his ears, spindling away upwards to merge in the thick curves of his brindled hair.

From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle




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