spiral
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Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
And his arm is pretty good — like, throwing a spiral 67 yards good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The latest spiral of escalation has brought the civilian death toll in Ukraine to the highest since the war's first months in 2022, according to the United Nations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The site also preserved Eoandromeda, a possible comb jelly with eight arms arranged in a spiral.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
His fur was long and silvery white but for a black spiral that curled around his snout.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Over time, the disk spirals inward, causing the wobble to speed up.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
When Bear begins to pull away from the intense devotion he engineered, Nikki’s behavior spirals out of control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
His all-Oxford intellectual formation comes out of the post-“Great Financial Crisis” macro-finance school that views financial crises as driven by leverage cycles, liquidity spirals and risk-taking channels as much as by the traditional business cycle.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
Etienne Brisson from the Human Line Project says this kind of research is limited and that they had heard from people who'd had mental health spirals on these latest models too.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
“Yes,” I replied, and looked at the tiny spirals of dirt rolling along the stained blade of the knife.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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The Sparks easily could have spiraled following Monday’s disaster in Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
The slow-motion crash of cryptocurrencies has weighed heavily on the company, which snapped up tens of billions of dollars in bitcoin as digital assets spiraled to new highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Commentators draw parallels with other intractable conflicts, and count the taxpayer money they say has spiraled down the drain.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
But where other artists might have spiraled, White and his compatriots transcended, turning inward while also looking to the stars.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
Thanks to social media, it was a prank that spiraled out of control.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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Rohit's dismissal in the 38th over, bowled round his legs by Bethell, was the decisive moment in the match, leaving Virat Kohli to attempt to take India to victory as the required run-rate spiralled.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
However, their hopes of signing first choice Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest ended when the England man's transfer fee spiralled up to £116m, a figure United were unwilling to match.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The conflict has since spiralled into Europe's deadliest since World War II.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Talks on ending what has spiralled into Europe's worst conflict since World War II have shown little progress and have been sidelined by the Iran conflict.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
They spiralled towards Ogygia, the warm wind in Leo’s hair.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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Alice demands to know whether Rebecca considered any women for the head coaching job, sending Rebecca spiraling to prove she is, in fact, a feminist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
That assessment can send the mind spiraling, and anxiety increases.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The iPhone maker in June raised prices for its Mac computers and iPad tablets, citing spiraling memory and storage costs sparked by the rise of artificial intelligence, though it spared the iPhone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The Drama” has Robert Pattinson and Zendaya spiraling right before a wedding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Bands of it flooded his body, twisting around his torso and crossing his limbs, spiraling down his legs and over his boots.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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The phenomenon happens when fluids - in this case hot gases - slide past each other and cause small disturbances to grow into spiralling vortices.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Scottish Conservative MP Andrew Bowie said "plummeting teacher numbers and spiralling levels of school violence" had made it a difficult year for pupils.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
But many also stayed away, hurting from two wars in less than a year, inflation spiralling at around 80%, and the pain of January's anti-government protests.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
But with key Gulf producers shut out of the global market, pledges to raise output in a bid to ease spiralling prices are unlikely to sway traders.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
I could feel a tremble in my stomach, spiralling outwards through my body.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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