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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spindled
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The person was also reportedly impaled by a tree branch, which first responders declined to remove during the transport process.
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Jerrod's fingers are cut off before he's impaled in front of a crowd, including a distraught Kitana.
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Aemond kills the old man anyway, and then kills his sons, though not before being stabbed in the back himself.
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When Chox Choc’s uncle tried to intervene, the teen stabbed him in the heart as well, the prosecutor said.
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With one out and runners on first and second, the Athletics’ Lawrence Butler smashed a line drive at second baseman Casey Schmitt, who speared the ball and quickly fired a throw to shortstop Willy Adames for a potential inning-ending double play.
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Roman Reigns speared Fatu through the barricade.
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Pelicans swooped overhead and night herons, with spiky yellow feathers flying from their heads, goofily pecked the grass for insects.
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As Cadeau pecked his way through the blue-and-maize confetti littering the court, Justin did a quick change.
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On his June 16 show, the comedian skewered Trump over the green appearance of the water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been overrun with algae after a recent renovation.
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David Fincher’s masterful Zodiac turned procedural investigation into a slow-burning descent into madness and uncertainty, while Mary Harron’s American Psycho skewered consumerist ’80s culture through the singular lens of Patrick Bateman’s unraveling mind.
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Watt had his lung punctured by the medical staff last season and will turn 32 in October.
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But there were also perplexing moments that punctured the gravitas of the event (even for an event built around hand-to-hand combat).
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And now, 44 years on, new generations of Villa fans could also cherish the moment when Buendia’s cross was jabbed in from close range by Morgan Rogers for the third, ensuring every Brummie in Istanbul could relax and soak in the game’s final 30 minutes.
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The boxers, aged 40 and 42 respectively, threw hopeful knockout punches and barely jabbed.
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That incident, in June 2025, happened just about a month after a Florida man was gored and injured by a bison in Yellowstone's Lake Village area, where restaurants and hotels are located.
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Having survived elephant, buffalo and three leopard attacks in his life, along with bouts of tick bite fever, Charles died in 1940, at the age of 66, gored to death by an injured rhino.
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“Spindled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindled. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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