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spin

[spin] / spɪn /




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Above a maze of tents in a crowded displacement camp in Gaza, homemade wind turbines made from scrap metal and salvaged debris spin in the sea breeze, bringing electricity to struggling Palestinians.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Next week could see low pressure systems spin in again from the west but uncertainty remains.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Let’s take a quick spin through the key outstanding races.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

One particularly promising application involves spintronics, short for spin electronics.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Of course King Barf would order more straw, all the straw he had, and make Opal spin him more gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

A video spins the story of a founder who, like a Chinese version of Elon Musk, slept in the factory to get the company up and running.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Performing reliable quantum calculations requires extremely precise control over these electron spins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

If an animal's entire body spins together, its head and sensory organs must also rotate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Philadelphia-based company is trying to stem customer losses and streamline before it spins off NBCUniversal next year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

I cry as she whisks me into the air and spins me around like I weigh nothing.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Doncic especially went to work in the third quarter, scoring 20 points in that span in delivering the Lakers to a 124-118 win over the Portland Trail Blazers Friday night at Crypto.com Arena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Heading into Friday’s trading, Tesla had erased more than $200 billion in market capitalization over a two-day span.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

And virtually no one has the patience or attention span to read an entire article anymore, let alone engage with its ideas.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Amazon on Thursday revealed the company was also spending more cash that it was making, and that spending had increased six-fold over the span of three months.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The two-foot span arched above Bigwig, who sat perfectly still while the white feathers beat the air round his head in a kind of ceremonious farewell.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, to run AI models directly in the car, rather than the cloud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

MS NOW is now owned by Versant, a group of cable channels spun off from NBCUniversal.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

As for Kornacki, he became NBC News’ chief data analyst after NBCUniversal’s owner, Comcast, spun off MS NOW along with USA Network, Syfy, E!, and its other cable channels into a venture known as Versant.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Amsterdam-based Magnum, which has a market value of close to €11 billion, equivalent to around $12 billion, was created last year when Unilever spun off its ice-cream business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The car spun through the leaves, darkening somewhere he slowed it, but mostly just trailing smoke above and behind it.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

While standard drones use spinning propellers that slice through open air, creating that high-pitched buzz, Greenjets encloses spinning blades inside a pod, to muffle the sound and direct the noise away from the ground.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

According to Botchwey, the Commonwealth, which includes 56 member countries with the king at its helm, is an important anchor in a "world that is almost spinning out of control".

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Rather than spinning their entire bodies together, the snakes alternate between rolling on one side and swinging a curved section of their bodies downward beside their heads.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

But he’s never been so delicately novelistic, and so accessibly human, as with his latest movie, “Possible Love,” even when Lee is spinning the enigmatic vibes he’s known for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

My gaze kept wandering over to the spinning wheel and to my bed, where the gold was hidden.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff


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