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spindle

[spin-dl] / ˈspɪn dl /




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From re-creating each staircase spindle to replicating 19th-century windows, a relocated Queen Anne gets a family-friendly update that honors its past.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

Words become a texture of stasis, as when “winding” and “whirring” are repeated multiple times to describe Thorn Rose’s climb to the turret where she finds the fatal spindle.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

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

You might need to first remove a metal or plastic ring on the brush head spindle.

From Seattle Times May 2, 2024

Hollister pulled a piece of twine from a spindle attached to his counter while Emily rearranged more magnetic words.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 5, 2026

For decades, slow waves and sleep spindles have been identified as essential elements of deep sleep, measured through electroencephalography recordings on the scalp.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2024

"We've discovered that the hippocampus, typically associated with memory formation, plays a crucial role in generating slow waves and sleep spindles, offering new insights into how these brain waves support memory processing during sleep."

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2024

Because these spindles change with aging, understanding these wave patterns better could provide insights into how plasticity breaks down with disease, Muller said.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2023

Brass spindles curled into balconies, and small elevators toted visitors to and from the levels.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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 Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)

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

At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings.

From Time Magazine Archive

The neck was short, the shoulders thin and the legs and arms were spindling.

From The Hand by Sohl, Gerald Allan




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