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The spool suit is the latest in a coordinated effort by California’s municipalities and the state attorney general’s office to throttle the bootleg gun industry by stanching the flow of its precursor components.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

In one video, the workers unwind a line of black tubing, or conduit, from a spool the size of a small car, before feeding it into the ground.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

The idea resembles winding optical fiber around a spool, but nanofabrication makes it possible to fit the path into a far smaller footprint.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

The tape vibrates in the Walkman as it reaches the end of its spool.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

As the AI spools out its logic, step by step, this narrated sequence gives users reassurance that the AI is marching in an orderly fashion from one verifiable conclusion to the next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

By that point, stock traders had moved away from using old-fashioned stock tickers and their endless spools of paper tape.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

The spools of thread Carrie unravels eventually end.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

Gone are the endless spools of film that collected in university commencement offices.

From Slate ● May 27, 2025

On Europe’s many silk farms, silkworms were raised for their cocoons, which were unraveled onto spools.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

The concern over the start process is centred on the increased amount of time it takes to get the turbos in the engines spooled up to the right speed for the optimum launch.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

As the decades spooled past, British society would become less deferential and British media more intrusive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Those DNA strands get packaged into chromatin fibers, which are spooled around histone proteins and then repeatedly looped to form highly compact structures that fit into the cell nucleus.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

Dressed in parkas and knit caps, the three volunteers lug crates of power tools and spooled wire into the gleaming mountaintop edifice that some have called astronomy’s “Sistine Chapel” and immediately start tinkering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

Shadows spooled from the breaking surf, and it reminded Danny of the basket of yarn that Mrs. Garner kept in the living room out of reach from the twins.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Jersey City firefighters literally reached the end of their rope, spooling out 200 feet of rescue line before turning back, not wanting to get themselves lost in the smoke.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

This ionized gas flows outward along magnetic field lines emerging from our star, spooling out in radial spirals tied to the sun’s rotation.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2023

Fishing fleets spooling out longlines—kilometers-long floating lines festooned with hooks—zero in on these same spots in pursuit of blue sharks.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 1, 2023

The idea, she said, would be to create the inside of a church, with a montage of Waters films spooling near the altar.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

He began turning the windlass, spooling the bucket down into the darkness.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull