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[spin] / spɪn /




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Dominic Tsoi drove from Orange County to spin at the open decks hosted by the DJ collective Helipad Society.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

We have become so accustomed to seeing her twirling her left-arm spin like a metronome, picking up wickets for fun, that it is easy to forget she is still only 27 years old.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

This recipe incorporates both—and I’ve added two other twists that put a fresh spin on it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The deal which excludes ITV Studios, the group's production arm, comes after Comcast last week said it would spin off its Sky media and NBCUniversal divisions into a separate company.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

“A good kind … magic that makes good things. You see, my daughter here—she’s not just a beauty, she’s talented too—spins with a touch of magic. She can spin straw into gold!”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The author spins a stylish kind of strangeness, however.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Neighboring spins point in opposite directions, causing their magnetic effects to cancel each other out.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

That will put on display two very different businesses that are both putting distinctive spins on the artificial intelligence market.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Using only these assumptions, the team showed that the resulting mathematics naturally reproduced the defining characteristics of string theory, including its famous spectrum of particle masses and spins.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

She is a vague figure, oftenest depicted at her spinning-wheel, where the threads she spins are of gold, but what she spins them for is a secret.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

It’s refreshing for the prize to go to Mr. Kraus, a so-called genre author whose nearly 30 books span horror, science fiction, graphic novels and books for teens.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

These periods span parts of the Stone Age and early metalworking eras, thousands of years before modern civilization.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

Iranian state media say six days of ceremonies will span several locations across Iran and neighbouring Iraq, before the late ayatollah is buried in his hometown of Mashhad on Thursday.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

One life span of 92 years before her birth, Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd and Francisco Lopez made the first documented discovery of gold in California.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

But often in the span of the same day, I would be restored, too, by the courage of men.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

Eui Seok Kang lost control of his Chevrolet Malibu in torrential rain late one night in October 2023, spun sideways across two lanes of a Texas road and was struck by a pickup truck.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Montreal-based Compulsion Games and San Francisco-based Double Fine Productions will be spun out and returned to private ownership.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

More recently, the Man With The Best Words spun off a thousand memes by saying at a press conference, “Nothing bad can happen; it can only good happen.”

From Salon Jul. 6, 2026

But on lap 48, Verstappen spun off at Stowe.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

I hadn’t spun that much gold, but it was already choking me.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

With spinning, weaving, dyeing and knitting facilities -- the Glo-Djigbe site exported its first garments in 2024 for the French retailer Kiabi, followed by other international brands such as US Polo.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Roberts has been spinning this theory of the president as the most directly democratically accountable officer.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

Because this disk was likely tilted relative to the magnetar's spin, Einstein's theory predicts that the rapidly spinning neutron star would drag the surrounding fabric of space-time with it, producing a phenomenon called Lense-Thirring precession.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

Comcast is spinning off its NBCUniversal entertainment and media assets into a separate publicly traded company.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

She had been spinning wool into a gentle shade of lavender, but as she spoke, the color deepened to a violent purple.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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