- present participle of spin.
spinning
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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
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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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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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