spin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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