spinning
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Crucially, with the broader market spinning its wheels of late, surging earnings mean price-to-earnings multiples have dropped.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The guileless Lowen gobbles it up, spinning an elaborate fantasy about the woman Verity was before the accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Peach gave them a ninth-minute lead, spinning through the Wigan defence close to the line after making the initial break as they dominated the opening exchanges.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Starboard feels that spinning off Knife River into a separate company failed to meaningfully improve its margins, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In front of it was a spinning wheel, big and shiny, the wood freshly carved and polished.
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
True to its original material, Coupe de Ville retains the air of a beloved anecdote polished by many spinnings around a family table.
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
