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  • present participle of spin.
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spinning

[spin-ing] / ˈspɪn ɪŋ /




ADJECTIVE
whirling
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
whirling
Synonyms


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With spinning, weaving, dyeing and knitting facilities -- the Glo-Djigbe site exported its first garments in 2024 for the French retailer Kiabi, followed by other international brands such as US Polo.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Roberts has been spinning this theory of the president as the most directly democratically accountable officer.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

In the absence of anything better and because the show, even when spinning its wheels, continues to offer much to enjoy, I think “The Bear” is safe for now.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Because this disk was likely tilted relative to the magnetar's spin, Einstein's theory predicts that the rapidly spinning neutron star would drag the surrounding fabric of space-time with it, producing a phenomenon called Lense-Thirring precession.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

He was sucked inside, spinning head over tail through a portal of blinding crimson light.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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 Bierce, Ambrose




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