- present participle of spin.
spinning
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And the risk will keep rising that Bessent’s spinning plates come crashing down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The impact sent Bustillos’ car spinning into a nearby bus stop, where Carlos was waiting after walking a friend home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Anytime you feel as if a co-worker is spinning a false narrative, it helps to have evidence that shows what they are claiming is, at the very least, one-sided.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Pulsar Timing Arrays rely on rapidly spinning neutron stars known as pulsars, which act as extraordinarily precise clocks in space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The miller’s daughter, Opal, was spinning outside on the porch.
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
