whorl
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Thought to be made from a cattle femur, this decorated Anglo-Saxon spindle whorl, used to provide weight while spinning yarn, was unearthed from farmland near Bishopstone, Buckinghamshire.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
A bird looks like an abstract whorl until you catch it at a particular angle; a man barely emerges from his stone, the cross on his neck just visible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
And Hathaway, whose best performances often embrace stylized extremes, brilliantly emphasizes the mannerisms that conceal Rebecca’s deeper manipulations: the flirty way she cocks her head at Eileen or exhales a whorl of cigarette smoke.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023
It beats staring into the whorl of a spiral-cut ham and wondering how things might have been different.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2023
Samuel Teece gutted the car out in a great whorl of dust.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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