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spun

adjective as in netted

Strong matches

Weak match

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Nearly everything else ever written about the family is conjecture spun from the scraps of information that exist, such as Shakespeare’s will leaving nothing to his wife other than “his second-best bed.”

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The U.S. government would receive 20% of Westinghouse profits above $17.5 billion, and Westinghouse could eventually be spun out as a public company with the government as a shareholder.

During a brief stint as a TV writer in 1950s Hollywood, he spun a map of stars’ homes in Beverly Hills into a fully realized board game called “Stardom.”

If ever an actress was born to play a role, it’s Ms. Grande as the ultra-feminine Glinda, a girl who seems to be spun out of cotton candy and floats around in a literal bubble.

Their moon-cast shadows formed lean shapes that stretched and folded, leaped and spun and skated across the cracked plaster.

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