spool
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The idea resembles winding optical fiber around a spool, but nanofabrication makes it possible to fit the path into a far smaller footprint.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
She points out the spool of paper tickets in the box office, now coiling on the floor and ready to be counted.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
The props turn slowly in unison—calibrating, calibrating—then spool furiously, a squadron of lawn mowers on deck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
A spool of tens of kilometres of cable is fitted to the bottom of a drone and the physical fibre optic cord is attached to the controller held by the pilot.
From BBC ● May 28, 2025
“Well, yes, and a sizable winch. The cables wrap around it like a big spool, and the guards just turn it with some kind of handle or wheel.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
In late April, the Kushner-backed group put construction fencing at the environmentally protected peninsula’s edges, lining it with spools of razor wire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
By that point, stock traders had moved away from using old-fashioned stock tickers and their endless spools of paper tape.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
The marriage’s past spools out with such clarity that what they have for breakfast becomes ominous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
The spools of thread Carrie unravels eventually end.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
Granny unraveled sweaters and picked apart dresses and jackets and pants; she wound the yarn into balls and the thread onto spools, and people bought them to use in making new clothes.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
The concern over the start process is centred on the increased amount of time it takes to get the turbos in the engines spooled up to the right speed for the optimum launch.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
As the decades spooled past, British society would become less deferential and British media more intrusive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Those DNA strands get packaged into chromatin fibers, which are spooled around histone proteins and then repeatedly looped to form highly compact structures that fit into the cell nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Dressed in parkas and knit caps, the three volunteers lug crates of power tools and spooled wire into the gleaming mountaintop edifice that some have called astronomy’s “Sistine Chapel” and immediately start tinkering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
I grabbed the edge of my seat, every inch of me pulled up tight as spooled thread.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Jersey City firefighters literally reached the end of their rope, spooling out 200 feet of rescue line before turning back, not wanting to get themselves lost in the smoke.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
This ionized gas flows outward along magnetic field lines emerging from our star, spooling out in radial spirals tied to the sun’s rotation.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2023
Fishing fleets spooling out longlines—kilometers-long floating lines festooned with hooks—zero in on these same spots in pursuit of blue sharks.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 1, 2023
Even with lifts tucked inside, her movement phrases keep spooling out, as if a special motor were powering them.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Mr. Flux’s flashes were rapid-fire by then, with photos of frozen fighters spooling from the camera and falling to his feet like large, square confetti.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
