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spiral

[spahy-ruhl] / ˈspaɪ rəl /




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At one point I spiraled into Henry VIII, and I just watched a million videos about Henry VIII.

From The Wall Street Journal

Active galactic nuclei occur when material spirals into a galaxy's central black hole, forming an extremely hot accretion disk.

From Science Daily

President Ferdinand Marcos has seen friend and foe alike, including a congressman cousin, swept up by the spiraling scandal since he first put the issue centre stage in a July national address.

From Barron's

In 2020, lockdowns showed how bad such a selling spiral can be, and the Federal Reserve was forced to buy more than $1 trillion of bonds to stabilize the market.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, this season is spiraling into the club’s most catastrophic campaign in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal