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spin

noun as in circular motion

verb as in go around, make go around

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The pipeline project was owned by Calgary-based TC Energy, which last year spun off its oil pipeline business into a new company named South Bow.

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After the seventh wicket fell - Georgia Wareham the latest in a line of Australians to chip a catch pushing hard against spin - Pakistan had a 92% chance of winning, according to analysts CricViz.

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Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions.

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At the heart of the giant galaxy M87 lies the black hole M87*, which contains a staggering six and a half billion solar masses and spins rapidly on its axis.

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When scientists apply weak magnetic fields, they reverse the direction these currents spin, and as a result, the preferred direction of current flow in the metal changes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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