spiral
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Walking into that long, blue-hued foyer with the marble floors, built-in planters and the spiral staircase that winds you through the home, left and right, mimics the feeling of descending these same hills.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
"It's one more episode in this whole downward spiral into which we've been dragged," she said.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
"I wanted the repetition to mirror those cyclical thoughts - a spiral or a fixation on one specific feeling," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
This structure varies widely, from the rounded cuttlebone in cuttlefish to the thin, blade-like gladius in many squid, as well as the spiral shell of the ram's horn squid.
From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026
A round bone amulet etched with a spiral was sewn to the breast of her jerkin.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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