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as in to rotate
to move in circles around an axis or center
spinning on its axis, the Earth makes one complete rotation every 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds
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as in rotation
a rapid turning about on an axis or central point
the ice skater moved into a tight spin at the end of her routine
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as in daze
a state of mental confusion
the news left me all in a spin
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Recent Examples of spin
Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Nelson’s 1975 album spins a yarn about a fugitive on the run after killing his wife and her lover.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
The pair also didn’t spare the spin duo of Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, who was smacked for 25 runs by Sharma in one over during the power play as Hyderabad cruised to 84 in the sixth over.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning dead stars called neutron stars at the heart of pulsars can blast out radio signals from their edges.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Nelson’s 1975 album spins a yarn about a fugitive on the run after killing his wife and her lover.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
Its events range from a Central Florida spin on a famous shipwreck to a true crime of the 1990s.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
The pair also didn’t spare the spin duo of Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, who was smacked for 25 runs by Sharma in one over during the power play as Hyderabad cruised to 84 in the sixth over.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
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Verb
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How to rotate your mattress Can’t flip your mattress?—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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Participants will rotate through Inter Miami Academy-style training stations led by Academy coaches.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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Authorities also suggest swimming near a lifeguard station.—
Ted Scouten,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Last year, a couple of 2-year-old males returned to swim up the Sacramento River.—
Rachel Becker,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2026
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The three Americans and one Canadian will swing around the moon in their Orion capsule, hang a U-turn and then head straight back home without stopping.—
Marcia Dunn,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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This fuel burn sets Orion on a path around the moon called a free return trajectory, which essentially means the spacecraft will enter the moon’s gravitational influence (but won’t orbit our natural satellite) and will swing around its far side.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
3 Apr. 2026
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Los Angeles also has two former MVP's in Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and one of the most lethal starting rotations in the league.—
Shaun McAvoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Smith had been a fixture in the Heat’s bench rotation, playing in 67 of the Heat’s first 71 games.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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In the band’s heyday, Anthony Kiedis, with his bare torso and long girlish copper-blond hair, looked like a ’70s teen idol who’d become a Warhol hustler – a street-flesh god like Joe Dallesandro, except that where Dallesandro was in a daze, Kiedis was a live wire.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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And there’s still almost an hour of film left to go, in which everyone, including the audience, is in a sort of hallucinatory, post traumatic daze — but even the relative comfort of that won’t last long.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One person handles the hotel, another takes on excursions, another manages dining.—
Lauren Schuster,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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Remington was from New York and remained an Easterner his whole life, except for his excursions in the West.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Take, for example, a $50 million revolving credit line.—
Ben Weiss,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Applications for that program will open monthly on a revolving basis beginning April 1, and close the next day, a tight window that city officials said is necessary because of overwhelming demand.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
25 Mar. 2026
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The heady Moon whirls into your 6th House of Effort, highlighting habits that support productivity.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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The whirling metal blades dominate the front yard with more frenzy movements than a four-year-old rushing to the bathroom.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Spin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spin. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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