spinning
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This year's voting season has been marked by intense campaigns that have included politicians spinning cars, watching grannies knit and even wading through giant-sized potholes.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Unlike hard drives containing spinning disks that can break, flash is a chip with no moving parts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Some meteors also display repeating changes in brightness, which can reveal how quickly they are spinning.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
Although he admits he has no proof, Kalimuththu is convinced the spinning blades are driving fish away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
A flurry of movement and noise surrounded me, but everything was blurred and spinning.
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
I hold, with Poe, that there are no long poems—only bursts of poetry in long spinnings of metrical prose.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
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