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  • present participle of coil.
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coiling

[koil-ing] / ˈkɔɪl ɪŋ /




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This dynamic “implies a coiling that will eventually resolve in a sharp repricing,” wrote BMO Capital Markets’ head of U.S. rates strategy, Ian Lyngen.

From Barron's Apr. 27, 2026

Liquid inks are bound by the rules of fluid dynamics, which means when they fall from a height, they become unstable, folding and coiling in on themselves.

From Science Daily Oct. 31, 2023

The 2.4-mile stretch of Mulholland Highway, named for its resemblance to the coiling reptiles, winds through the Santa Monica Mountains roughly between Kanan Road and Sierra Creek Road.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2023

Behind where they sat, I could see the 20-foot border wall with coiling razor wire on top.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2023

I sensed his hindquarters swaying in anticipation, his tail coiling like the rope.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

And so saying, she threw herself upon her knees before the new-comer, and clasped her arms around her with a rapidity and suppleness that almost resembled the coilings of a snake.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

They were become gliding lengths of muscle as swift, as loathsome in their supple dartings and coilings as any snake lashing across the expanses of primeval jungle.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

Could it be that the impulses released by the Keeper's coilings passed through the Metal People of the pave on the upthrust Metal People of the crater rim who held the shields?

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt

Limbs aching, he moved forward, with slow twists 59 and coilings of the body.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon

Dark huddled coilings from the obscene depths, Black, formless shadow, Shadow.

From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét




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