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spindle

[spin-dl] / ˈspɪn dl /




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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

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

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

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

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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