spin
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When today’s starters exit a game, they are simply replaced by a bullpen arm who comes in and does the same thing: maximize effort for velocity and spin on every pitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Ground yourself with some compassion: Slate senior editor Tony Ho Tran takes a spin as Prudie and dishes out some exceptionally heartfelt advice.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
They also hope to identify experimental signals that could reveal the influence of acceleration, including patterns in hyperon spin polarization.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Rich Paul, the master of spin, cryptic messages and diversion, was in full force during this entire long, drawn out soap opera/charade involving LeBron James.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
She was so pretty, I might have believed she really could spin straw to gold, but I knew that she couldn’t.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
In ferromagnets, neighboring electron spins point in the same direction, creating an external magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
When mother and son sing songs from the famous cycle by Bengali writer-composer and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore or hold a deathbed conversation in Bangla, the piece spins further across time and space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
SpaceX and OpenAI are both racing toward public offerings, which will highlight two very different businesses that are both putting distinctive spins on the artificial-intelligence market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
“Hammer’s very technical because you do four spins instead of one.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
He lifts her up and spins her around.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The short attention span Schwartz described is now even more pronounced.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Her initial following of around 2,000 followers on TikTok swelled to more than 175,000 in the span of eight months.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The annual property tax bills hovered between $48,000 and $64,300 over that span.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Coming into Thursday trading, Tesla stock had dropped for six straight days, losing 21% over that span.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
I stood at the front of the line, looking at the gleaming span of checkered tile between the PSF’s black boots and my mud-splattered toes.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Isomorphic Labs is an AI-powered drug discovery lab that spun out from DeepMind in 2021.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
It has spun off and listed its Aumovio automotive unit, sold its original equipment solutions business and agreed to sell its ContiTech unit that manufactures products like conveyer belts and materials for vehicle interiors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
As Murphy's life spun out of control, unknown to him, the FDA was already investigating Paradigm Peptides.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
It spun off its financial business in October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Magic like how I spun the gold, and how my mother had.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Sandisk stock fell 47% in July—its worst month since spinning off from Western Digital.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Hearing the futile spinning of tires, neighbors came out en masse to figure out how to solve the problem.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
As we go through each document, my head is spinning.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The AI learned it could maximize its score by spinning in circles in one spot, even though it never completed the race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
A four-horse wagon is broken down, its back wheels cracked, spinning at odd angles.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
