spinning

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On May 1, engineers made another attempt using a combination of steeper drill angles, drill rotation, vibration, and spinning of the drill bit.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

Within five milliseconds of that contact, the spinning blade comes to a dramatic brake, and the blade whooshes below the table.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Spurned Spinoffs: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed spinning out the company’s robotics and consumer-hardware divisions late last year, a move intended to give them more room to grow without weighing down the core business.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

“That’s just absolutely a recipe for people spinning out and doing some things.”

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

The witch pointed to a chair by a spinning wheel, and I froze.

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