spinning
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UK Hospitality Cymru director David Chapman said the costs facing the sector made running a business similar to "plate spinning when you're riding an exercise bike".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
AI development is moving ahead at blazing speed—much faster than expected—feeding a growing sense of dread within the companies that it was in danger of 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
On Thursday afternoon, a new tropical storm, Norbert, was spinning hundreds of miles southwest of Baja California, heading west.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
I would never touch a spinning wheel again.
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
