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winding

[wahyn-ding] / ˈwaɪn dɪŋ /


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Presuming you care to keep your job; and considering the clock is rapidly winding down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"One way to picture it is that the current "twists" the phase of the coherent quantum state of the superconductor, rather like winding a spring," explains Eryin Wang, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

In April, Quixote announced it was winding down most of its Los Angeles soundstage business, including its main commercial studio in West Hollywood and its North Valley studio in Pacoima.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

So with the clock winding down and the game on the line, Chambliss wasn’t thinking about a national championship, or a Heisman trophy, or his suddenly soaring NFL draft stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

He stood a little taller, keeping in step with her as they continued through the outskirts’ winding streets.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The company’s share price took a hit last month when the startup missed delivery expectations for the third quarter and lowered its production forecast, reportedly because of miscommunication with its supplier of copper windings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024

Grid transformers are filled with copper windings, other metallic components, and cellulose-based electrical insulation like kraft paper.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Reed, a freelance writer who “has owned a Dodge, a Ford and a Buick,” describes the novel as having a “Tolstoy-sized cast” and “more windings than a Byzantine intrigue.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

It’s that manufacturing agility that allowed a company whose top product was a tour-played ball with rubber windings to switch to solid-core, multilayer constructions with the introduction of the Pro V1 in late 2000.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 24, 2019

If you went down the river long enough, along its sinewy windings, you’d reach the sea; but what could you do there?

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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