- present participle of spin.
spinning
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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
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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
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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