spinning
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The 37-year-old began his journey just hours after spinning out of Sunday's chaotic Grand Prix, taking a trip that involved off-road and gravel trails as well as cycling at night.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Crucially, with the broader market spinning its wheels of late, surging earnings mean price-to-earnings multiples have dropped.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The guileless Lowen gobbles it up, spinning an elaborate fantasy about the woman Verity was before the accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Veteran energy advisers say that with no resolution to the Iran war in sight, the situation risks spinning out of control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yonder was far from The King’s City, and if her family was still there, perhaps they would know about the spinning and how I could get out of this heap of trouble.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
True to its original material, Coupe de Ville retains the air of a beloved anecdote polished by many spinnings around a family table.
From Time Magazine Archive
It fluttered in swift turns and somersaults and spinnings.
From The Aliens by H. R. van Dongen
