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spindle

[spin-dl] / ˈspɪn dl /




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GM has stated that in the event of a spindle fracture, anti-lock brakes, stability control and traction control remain functional until the vehicle comes to a complete stop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ellie Knot, of Devon Biodiversity Records Centre, said there were eight species of ermine moth, so it was hard to tell if these were spindle ermine.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, provided expertise in comparative genomics and mitotic spindle geometry and biophysics, respectively.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

At the foot of the turf cliff, Hazel and his companions were crouching under the low branches of two or three spindle trees.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The team hit a speed bump with the Blair House’s front porch spindles, which had been removed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

“I could’ve just gone online to Home Depot, cut their spindles in half and thrown them up on the porch,” Cain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

"We've discovered that the hippocampus, typically associated with memory formation, plays a crucial role in generating slow waves and sleep spindles, offering new insights into how these brain waves support memory processing during sleep."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024

Even without the nighttime fights and fireworks, the city’s surfaces shone with glass and metal, the unlikely spindles of party towers casting thin shadows across the island.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

The illusions in two-dimensional imagery are contradicted by flat surfaces that he’s folded, spindled and otherwise mutilated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

And the baseball imagination has been staggered, stretched, folded, spindled and mutilated for generations.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2017

This enterprise came about prior to Purdue being juridically spindled into creating an abuse proof reformulation.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2015

Edwin Jackson folded, spindled and mutilated his former team in the 's home opener — an impressive feat even if those Rays are 0-6 with a .146 team batting average.

From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 7, 2011

If one or two prayer-towers spindled above Ballydehob it would be a perfect Turkish village.

From Last Words by Stephen Crane

Dior’s saddle bags, spindling stiletto heels, Tiffany & Co.’s heart-shaped charm bracelets — all visual elements of Paris Hilton’s “rich bitch” phenomenon — heralded a trend for brazen excess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017

Take private classes in felting, drop spindling, rug hooking, natural dyeing and basic weaving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2015

Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, even more than today, the citizenry instinctively loathed the computer and its injunctions against folding, spindling and mutilating.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spindling operator without hesitation walked over to him and laid his hand on the man’s shoulder.

From The Mountain Divide by Armand Both




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