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In one video, the workers unwind a line of black tubing, or conduit, from a spool the size of a small car, before feeding it into the ground.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

The idea resembles winding optical fiber around a spool, but nanofabrication makes it possible to fit the path into a far smaller footprint.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

She grabs a zipper and spool of thread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

She dropped to her hands and knees to locate the spool of thread; when she found it, she stood back up and offered it to Pea.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo

The polymer filament is sold in spools that feed into 3-D printers, allowing the devices to form designs created by their owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

The workshop is filled with finished bags alongside rolls of leather and spools of thread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

By that point, stock traders had moved away from using old-fashioned stock tickers and their endless spools of paper tape.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

The spools of thread Carrie unravels eventually end.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

There, young women sit at clattering Typex machines—bulky black typewriters with spinning spools of white tape.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

The concern over the start process is centred on the increased amount of time it takes to get the turbos in the engines spooled up to the right speed for the optimum launch.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

As the decades spooled past, British society would become less deferential and British media more intrusive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Nile, though, is unencumbered by empathy, guilt, or the urge for compromise, a mile-long bunting of red flags spooled into one cashmere-clad creep.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025

Those DNA strands get packaged into chromatin fibers, which are spooled around histone proteins and then repeatedly looped to form highly compact structures that fit into the cell nucleus.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

Ingrid spooled the soft scarf from the German soldier around her neck.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Jersey City firefighters literally reached the end of their rope, spooling out 200 feet of rescue line before turning back, not wanting to get themselves lost in the smoke.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

This ionized gas flows outward along magnetic field lines emerging from our star, spooling out in radial spirals tied to the sun’s rotation.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2023

Fishing fleets spooling out longlines—kilometers-long floating lines festooned with hooks—zero in on these same spots in pursuit of blue sharks.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 1, 2023

The idea, she said, would be to create the inside of a church, with a montage of Waters films spooling near the altar.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

He began turning the windlass, spooling the bucket down into the darkness.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull