spinner
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For the home cooks: OXO is best known for revolutionizing the salad spinner, but it has also redesigned the garlic press, the can opener, the vegetable peeler … the list goes on.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The short stuff, one over of spin, the second new-ball with the spinner.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Bouchier, who made 45 off 31 balls, inexplicably ran Dunkley out for 20 before also carelessly being caught off a short ball from spinner Kia McCartney.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Stand-in skipper Charlie Dean held things together with 2-44 but it was a tough outing for young left-arm spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman, who bowled seven wicketless overs for 53 as the pitch offered little.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
His mother, Alice, had been a spinner, and his father is thought to have been a white wagon driver working at Mount Vernon.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
As professional spinners of reputation and reshapers of meaning, marketers have long created newfangled jobs or pithy descriptions to slot their work into the zeitgeist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
That always appeared a match-winning total on a surface offering bounce for the pace bowlers and turn for the spinners.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
On this occasion the spinners took a backseat – Adil Rashid and Dawson sent down only four overs between them.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
They are most similar in the way they pick length, allowing them to pull, flat-bat or cut balls from spinners even in good areas.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“This attack on the spinners does not bode well for your father.”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
