coiling

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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

Robert Smithson had bulldozed dirt and rocks to build a spiral jetty coiling out into Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

She looked down and saw a large snake coiling around her left leg.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024

The study suggests that the development of the coiling and grasping trunk in Platybelodon allowed this group to survive in greater numbers in their open environments.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

The head of a snake emerges, and the creature winds itself through the legs of the bird, coiling up around it.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston