spinning
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The speed of my spinning nunchucks wasn’t nearly as fearsome as the flapping of my upper arm flab.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
More alcohol-free branding: How the creative agency Lucky Generals rebuilt the spinning room from Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” music video to promote Beefeater 0.0.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Anytime you feel as if a co-worker is spinning a false narrative, it helps to have evidence that shows what they are claiming is, at the very least, one-sided.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Pulsar Timing Arrays rely on rapidly spinning neutron stars known as pulsars, which act as extraordinarily precise clocks in space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Finally, I stopped spinning long enough to pull Courtney away to freedom.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012
Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2010
Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hold, with Poe, that there are no long poems—only bursts of poetry in long spinnings of metrical prose.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
