spool
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In one video, the workers unwind a line of black tubing, or conduit, from a spool the size of a small car, before feeding it into the ground.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
Warm with this praise, I handed him the spool.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
The workshop is filled with finished bags alongside rolls of leather and spools of thread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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 spools of thread Carrie unravels eventually end.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
Gone are the endless spools of film that collected in university commencement offices.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
There, young women sit at clattering Typex machines—bulky black typewriters with spinning spools of white tape.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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
Nile, though, is unencumbered by empathy, guilt, or the urge for compromise, a mile-long bunting of red flags spooled into one cashmere-clad creep.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
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
Most of the room was taken up by a long winch, handles at each end, thick loops of chain spooled around it.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
They drag another dancer while he is on top of the sheet, spooling out a long and intricate head spin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
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
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
