spin
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Such control could prove valuable for spintronics, a field that uses electron spin as well as electrical charge to process and store information, and for new computer memory designs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
After her debate flub, Graham tried to spin it by saying she focused on “kitchen-table issues” such as affordability.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Too many “ifs” make an advice columnist’s head spin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
In a draft response to Live Nation’s initial proposal, they demanded the company spin off Ticketmaster, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“I know that she could spin … valuable things. Will you tell me what happened to her?”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
I can already imagine it: point your phone at a package of ground beef and wait while a tiny animated horseshoe spins on the screen.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Spin texture describes how a material's magnetic moments -- the spins of its electrons -- are arranged in space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
While her last break was an effort to get away from skating, Liu told NBC Sports that this time she will continue training to improve her “overall artistry, spins, jumps, everything.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The author spins a stylish kind of strangeness, however.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
One of the wheels is wonky and spins left and right instead of rolling straight.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
The warnings span Wednesday and Thursday and include parts of east Wales, the Midlands, northern England, East Anglia and southern England - including London.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Both have returned around 2.5% in that span.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Garret Martin, a foreign policy expert at American University, said Trump "famously has a short attention span."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
When it comes to fitness and longevity, cardio, strength training and stretching have long gotten the spotlight as the go-to approaches for optimizing our health span and lifespan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
A later report by a Chicago building inspector noted, “There is an uneven settlement of foundations, in some places as much as four inches in a span of 20 feet.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The new simulations suggest that such a star cannot be spun up nearly as much during later passages.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The next year, Tang spun the company now called Z.AI out of his Tsinghua lab, funding it in part with a data-analytics platform he ran that had clients such as Google and IBM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But “Heartbreak Hotel” and “You Oughtta Know” were regularly spun in the car.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Serve was founded in 2017 as a division of Postmates and was spun out as an independent company after Uber acquired Postmates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
I had lots of gold, spun into perfect little coils with my mother’s spinning wheel.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Meta is spinning the settlement as a meeting of the minds.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
New research from astrophysicists at Syracuse University suggests that a previously underappreciated property of the star could provide the answer: how rapidly it was spinning before its first close encounter with the black hole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Other items in the auction were Gandhi's notes on God and the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita, his portable spinning wheel and two letters about the spiritual discipline of spinning.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that a spinning black hole would drag spacetime along with it, twisting it in a way that changes the orbits of the surrounding stars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
When Gran wasn’t looking, I removed the bobbin from the spinning wheel, wrapped it in a rag, and tied it to my waist.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
