spinning
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It is also easy to forget Jacks began the year in England's Test side, as their spinning all-rounder during the Ashes - a role now filled by Dan Lawrence.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
King Charles III waded into the AI debate on Thursday, gathering top tech executives in Scotland to urge them to hash out guidelines to keep the technology from spinning out of control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Veteran energy advisers say that with no resolution to the Iran war in sight, the situation risks spinning out of control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
This small sideways displacement is the optical equivalent of the Magnus effect that makes a spinning table tennis ball curve through the air.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
And I remembered the way she had reacted when I first found the spinning wheel.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012
Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2010
Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Plumie ship must have seen the rocket flares, but it continued to dance, coming nearer and ever nearer in seemingly heedless and purposeless plungings and spinnings in star-speckled space.
From The Aliens by H. R. van Dongen
