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During a crisis, support is often essential to prevent a downward spiral that destroys the financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The latest spiral of escalation has brought the civilian death toll in Ukraine to the highest since the war's first months in 2022, according to the United Nations.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

One of two rooms at the Saxony Cottage has a spiral staircase that leads to an upstairs bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

He falls onto ground that is no longer charred and muddy, but firm and dry and patterned in a spiral of black and white.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Roll it out cinnamon-roll style, spread with cream cheese, Parmesan, herbs and hot giardiniera, then coil, slice and nestle the spirals together in a buttered skillet.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Researchers have uncovered a surprising side effect of artificial lighting: ordinary streetlights can lure thousands of tiny land dwelling isopods into giant synchronized "death spirals."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

When Bear begins to pull away from the intense devotion he engineered, Nikki’s behavior spirals out of control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Emotions explode as secrets are laid bare - and in a dramatic rollercoaster, the plot spirals back over five years to explain their relationships and toxic family dynamics.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

The spirals had become so small that the pencil lines ran together and the result was a shiny black dot.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Material pulled from the star formed a disk around the black hole and became intensely hot as it spiraled inward.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Commentators draw parallels with other intractable conflicts, and count the taxpayer money they say has spiraled down the drain.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, said Pratt seems to have tapped into a deep well of discontent among Angelenos who believe that crime and homeless have spiraled out of control.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

At last year’s staging of “A Streetcar Named Desire” with Paul Mescal, theatergoers were positively tickled as Blanche DuBois spiraled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"I needed therapy because my mental health had spiralled way out of control... but I never understood why," said Mellissa.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

However, their hopes of signing first choice Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest ended when the England man's transfer fee spiralled up to £116m, a figure United were unwilling to match.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The conflict has since spiralled into Europe's deadliest since World War II.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

Talks on ending what has spiralled into Europe's worst conflict since World War II have shown little progress and have been sidelined by the Iran conflict.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

They emerged and flew about in the way of flies, in great, lazy orbits except when they came close to each other, when they spiralled together with dizzying speed and a burst of buzzing.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

He counsels letter writers on how to handle a cheating brother, discuss religion with a devout friend, and avoid spiraling over the fear of being single forever.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

“I just thought that episode was really funny and special and weird. Coop and Mel are both spiraling in their own way. They’re kind of parallel spiraling.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

The 2026 Commonwealth Games were thrown into doubt when its original hosts, the Australian state of Victoria, pulled out in 2023 citing spiraling costs.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

But such events are also drawing the working and middle classes, who bust open savings and borrow money to afford spiraling prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

My spiraling thoughts make my nausea a thousand times worse.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

These include women's rights, unpredictable Taliban edicts, international sanctions and aid cuts during a spiralling humanitarian crisis.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The phenomenon happens when fluids - in this case hot gases - slide past each other and cause small disturbances to grow into spiralling vortices.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

"Happiness came in a box," Charli says of the proposal, before spiralling into a panic about who she'll become if she says "yes".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The Middle East crisis brought spiking inflation and the risk of spiralling conflict close to home for Pakistan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

Frightful spreads her tapered wings and catches a rising thermal of spiralling air.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George