spin
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By addressing one of the most difficult parts of modeling how spin defects respond to light, the researchers have made it possible to predict their behavior more completely and accurately.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The company said in June that it would spin off its TV, film and streaming business into a separate, publicly-traded entity, which is expected to be completed next summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The umpires then deemed the light too poor for seam bowling to continue, however, and after three overs of spin with the new ball the players left the field.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
For Dimon, that starts with killing internal spin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
My fingertips tingled as I watched, like they itched to spin.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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The Honduran diva spins twisted pop fairy tales in her bewitching new album, ‘Vanity’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Philadelphia-based company is trying to stem customer losses and streamline before it spins off NBCUniversal next year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Members of the Just Eat UK subreddit have flocked to the site over the past few days to post the latest unintentionally hilarious spins on takeaway food items.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
This unusual combination allows altermagnets to support electrical currents with strongly polarized electron spins while also displaying extremely rapid magnetic dynamics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
The 3D hologram spins like a massive blue-and-green marble.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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The charges against Tim Visser span a 14-year period and are alleged to have happened in Edinburgh and elsewhere between 2010 and 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Six states—Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Virginia, Missouri and Alabama—account for 70% of the 1,685 executions in that span.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
These immense weather systems can span planetary scales, continually changing the appearance of the distant world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
He has not hit a home run since Aug. 18, a span of 107 at-bats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Gandalf stood in the middle of the span, leaning on the staff in his left hand, but in his other hand Glamdring gleamed, cold and white.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Once they are old enough, the fish are moved to sea pens, surveilled by systems created with TidalX AI, a startup spun out of Alphabet’s moonshot factory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
PepsiCo owned KFC until it spun off its restaurant divisions, which included Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, in 1997.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Both spun, Piastri into the barriers and retirement and Norris down from fifth place to eighth.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
He got the car well enough alongside to make a legitimate passing attempt, but Piastri defended his position robustly, the cars touched, and spun in unison.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He dipped his left arm down and spun away, sideways, down low, and then up again.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Johnson & Johnson is “leaning” toward spinning out the hips-and-knees business that the company has been looking to hive off, Chief Financial Officer Joseph Wolk said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
As a result, the arrangement of the light itself can determine where its left-handed and right-handed spinning patterns become visible.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Hurricane Simon, currently spinning along Mexico’s west coast, is expected to make landfall there this week, and forecasters say there’s roughly a 90% chance of another cyclone formation in the next seven days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
And today, even in its shuttered and bruised state, it stands defiantly — a testament to handmade art at a time the world is spinning toward all-digital everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Finally, I stopped spinning long enough to pull Courtney away to freedom.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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