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  • present participle of spin.
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spinning

[spin-ing] / ˈspɪn ɪŋ /




ADJECTIVE
whirling
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
whirling
Synonyms


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Some meteors also display repeating changes in brightness, which can reveal how quickly they are spinning.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

"It's a very old building, and sometimes the trustees feel like they're trying to keep all the plates spinning, it's very hard at times."

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Although he admits he has no proof, Kalimuththu is convinced the spinning blades are driving fish away.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

But he’s never been so delicately novelistic, and so accessibly human, as with his latest movie, “Possible Love,” even when Lee is spinning the enigmatic vibes he’s known for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

I was betraying Gran and spinning her memory away all at once.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.

From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012

Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2011

Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2010

True to its original material, Coupe de Ville retains the air of a beloved anecdote polished by many spinnings around a family table.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Plumie ship must have seen the rocket flares, but it continued to dance, coming nearer and ever nearer in seemingly heedless and purposeless plungings and spinnings in star-speckled space.

From The Aliens by H. R. van Dongen


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