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“Spider-Noir,” which premiered in May, is a “Spider-Man” project that put a 1930s crime-thriller spin on the web-slinging superhero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
As the material cools, however, electrons moving through the surrounding metal begin interacting strongly with the impurity's spin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
"I've never learned how to spin a car, you know, in a 180 and stop it on a mark," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Australian champion Rob Reid took the speciality award - where competitors can combine oatmeal with any ingredients - with his porridge cannoli, an oaty spin on a tube-shaped dessert that originated in Sicily.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Because I can spin the straw into gold,” I said.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The seats are on the side of the track, allowing riders’ feet to dangle below or above them as their seat spins forward or backward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The groups can be "echo chambers where everyone just spins each other out about their kids", he says, and suggests having a proper conversation with your child about boundaries, before university starts.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
At temperatures close to -270 °C, each electron interacts with roughly one million nearby nuclear spins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
An ultrathin diamond wafer converts CEBAF's electrons into a beam of high-energy photons with parallel spins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
He pulls away and spins me around to face him.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Nearly 40 years later, NPCs have come a long way, with increasingly complex behaviors and conversational dialogue that span far more than just three words.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
In September, the board proposed a $2.45 billion Gaza recovery plan at a meeting of its members and stakeholders, in an effort meant to span over six months.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
The property is also situated just a few miles from his studios, which span 330 acres.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
This emerging language, known as “neuralese,” is drifting toward incomprehensibility because training an AI to arrive at the correct answer incentivizes them to use representations that span languages, mathematics and other disciplines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In life he’d stood taller than the tallest man, and the span of his gleaming black horns had been almost as wide.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The track hoe operator repeatedly spun the machine to the west, dug into a mound of sand, spun 180 degrees and dropped the sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
"It spun from our treatment, and not being treated like human beings."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“We put ourselves in position to win,” he spun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
We, the audience, are the final piece of the puzzle, the culpable players who not only ate up the original “To Catch a Predator,” but all the media and memes that spun off it.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Don’t talk nonsense, silly girl. What would the king say were he to learn that you never really spun the gold, but bargained his child to this … creature? This little demon?”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
And today, even in its shuttered and bruised state, it stands defiantly — a testament to handmade art at a time the world is spinning toward all-digital everything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The 37-year-old began his journey just hours after spinning out of Sunday's chaotic Grand Prix, taking a trip that involved off-road and gravel trails as well as cycling at night.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Crucially, with the broader market spinning its wheels of late, surging earnings mean price-to-earnings multiples have dropped.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The guileless Lowen gobbles it up, spinning an elaborate fantasy about the woman Verity was before the accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
In front of it was a spinning wheel, big and shiny, the wood freshly carved and polished.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
