- present participle of spin.
spinning
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It is now adding a general-purpose AI platform capable of spinning up autonomous agents for business needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The impact sent Bustillos’ car spinning into a nearby bus stop, where Carlos was waiting after walking a friend home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Anytime you feel as if a co-worker is spinning a false narrative, it helps to have evidence that shows what they are claiming is, at the very least, one-sided.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Meta is spinning the settlement as a meeting of the minds.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
I was betraying Gran and spinning her memory away all at once.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The central text of Europe’s central religion, followed closely by the tales and fairy spinnings of a Greek storyteller.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2012
Despite these wild spinnings, spiral-swimming creatures manage to navigate very well.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
Many of them try too hard to impress with excessive swan flutterings as the swan-queen Odette on the one hand and multitudinous spinnings as the enchantress Odile on the other.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2010
Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles.
From Time Magazine Archive
It fluttered in swift turns and somersaults and spinnings.
From The Aliens by H. R. van Dongen
