spindle
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Since opening the evaluation, the agency has received more reports of losing brake assist, some of which have described issues inconsistent with GM’s description of a spindle failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
One widely shared video shows a woman spinning yarn on a traditional hand spindle as a Kashmiri folk song plays in the background.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
A new company was found, the fabrication truly European: spindle from the Czech Republic, cables and curved glass from Italy, capsules from France, the main structure from the Netherlands.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
She hammered at their spool’s securing clips, releasing it from the winding spindle.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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The team hit a speed bump with the Blair House’s front porch spindles, which had been removed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Stage two also includes unique brain activity, called spindles and K-complexes, which are short bursts of activity responsible for processing outside stimuli, as well as for consolidating memory.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Above their bent heads, huge spindles pound steam- powered fists.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Matted in dead leaves, it wound past snatches of green fern that spindled down the hillsides.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022
The illusions in two-dimensional imagery are contradicted by flat surfaces that he’s folded, spindled and otherwise mutilated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018
This enterprise came about prior to Purdue being juridically spindled into creating an abuse proof reformulation.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2015
Edwin Jackson folded, spindled and mutilated his former team in the 's home opener — an impressive feat even if those Rays are 0-6 with a .146 team batting average.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 7, 2011
There is a lot of brown spindled wood in its make-up, both inside and outside.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Douglas (Douglas N.) Hay
Dior’s saddle bags, spindling stiletto heels, Tiffany & Co.’s heart-shaped charm bracelets — all visual elements of Paris Hilton’s “rich bitch” phenomenon — heralded a trend for brazen excess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
Take private classes in felting, drop spindling, rug hooking, natural dyeing and basic weaving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2015
At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It had spindling wire wheels, an exposed engine, a radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But she paid attention to his next act, which was to pull out a great chair and drop back in it as if too weary to stand longer upon his spindling legs.
From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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