spun
Example Sentences
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"Confidential market sensitive information appears to have been spun, leaked and misused - and markets, businesses and families have paid the price," he claimed.
From BBC
He spun wordplay, philosophical debates and scientific principles into popular theatrical entertainment, landing a string of West End and Broadway hits, and won a best-screenplay Oscar for the smash Hollywood film “Shakespeare in Love.”
Nearly everything else ever written about the family is conjecture spun from the scraps of information that exist, such as Shakespeare’s will leaving nothing to his wife other than “his second-best bed.”
From Los Angeles Times
The U.S. government would receive 20% of Westinghouse profits above $17.5 billion, and Westinghouse could eventually be spun out as a public company with the government as a shareholder.
During a brief stint as a TV writer in 1950s Hollywood, he spun a map of stars’ homes in Beverly Hills into a fully realized board game called “Stardom.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
