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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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Johnson & Johnson is leaning toward spinning out its hips-and-knees business, according to Chief Financial Officer Joseph Wolk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Under those conditions, the beam can initially have no spin, yet distinct regions with spinning behavior emerge as it travels through free space.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Its chief financial officer told The Wall Street Journal that the drug company is thinking more seriously about spinning out its hips-and-knees business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The 37-year-old began his journey just hours after spinning out of Sunday's chaotic Grand Prix, taking a trip that involved off-road and gravel trails as well as cycling at night.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

There was an old man sitting in front of a wooden shack, spinning.

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


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