spin·out
ˈspin-ˌau̇t 
: a rotational skid by an automobile that usually causes it to leave the roadway
spun out; spinning out; spins out
: to make a rotational skid in an automobile
Examples of spinout in a Sentence
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Robert Shackelford, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
Take Polestar, the EV spinout of Swedish carmaker Volvo, which delivers one of the most convincing rivals to Tesla, and (most importantly as a reluctant Tesla owner myself) a way to ‘go green’ without lining Elon Musk’s pocket.
—Alex Wood Morton, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
Frequency Therapeutics, an MIT spinout, is looking for new ways to reverse hearing loss.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 May 2022
Early last week, the buzzy social network Bluesky—a onetime Twitter spinout that’s soaking up many refugees from the cesspit now known as X—finally started letting people in without invitations.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
Caltrans officials in Sacramento were urgently watching conditions on Interstate 80 and Highway 50 as spinouts began tying up traffic Friday night.
—Sacramento Bee, 3 Feb. 2024
The California Highway Patrol said numerous spinouts and collisions forced an hourslong closure of Interstate 80 from west of Truckee, California to the state line west of Reno.
—Steve Leblanc, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
Among them is General Catalyst, which on Sunday announced a health business spinout with plans to buy a health system of its very own.
—Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 8 Oct. 2023
Popular products such as the Microsoft spinout XiaoIce are prohibited from discussing politically sensitive topics such as the Tiananmen Square protests or Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
—Helen Toner, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2023
Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
As a result, Iran, through its axis clients—including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria—has tried to walk a fine line between responding to the demand for action and preventing axis responses to the Israeli offensive from spinning out of control.
—Joost Hiltermann, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
Spirit was spun out of Boeing in 2005 out of its misbegotten attempt to take assets off its balance sheet in order to improve its Return on Net Assets.
—Gautam Mukunda, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
About four minutes and 15 seconds into the chase, a supervisor is heard giving permission for a TVI, a controversial maneuver intended to force a driver into spinning out and coming to a stop.
—Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
But the issue of stability and who can restore it is a powerful one: Three of the issues that Republicans have taken advantage of this past year — inflation, crime and the border — all play on voters’ fears about events spinning out of control.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
The crash occurred around 10:40 a.m., when a single-engine Harmony LSA landed short on the northeast end of the runway and spun out, Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Rick Breitenfeldt said.
—Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
With their staccato wordplay and sinewy rhythms, the Last Poets were pioneers of performance poetry, spinning out portraits of Black street life that often bristled with the guerrilla spirit of revolution.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
The patrol says Harden spun out and was struck by a second car, a 2021 Chevrolet Equinox driven by a 19-year-old from Maineville.
—The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
Noun
Slick conditions also wreaked havoc in Minnesota where nearly 400 crashes and more than 300 spinouts have occurred since Sunday, according the Minnesota State Patrol.
—Robert Shackelford, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
Take Polestar, the EV spinout of Swedish carmaker Volvo, which delivers one of the most convincing rivals to Tesla, and (most importantly as a reluctant Tesla owner myself) a way to ‘go green’ without lining Elon Musk’s pocket.
—Alex Wood Morton, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
Frequency Therapeutics, an MIT spinout, is looking for new ways to reverse hearing loss.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 May 2022
Early last week, the buzzy social network Bluesky—a onetime Twitter spinout that’s soaking up many refugees from the cesspit now known as X—finally started letting people in without invitations.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
Caltrans officials in Sacramento were urgently watching conditions on Interstate 80 and Highway 50 as spinouts began tying up traffic Friday night.
—Sacramento Bee, 3 Feb. 2024
The California Highway Patrol said numerous spinouts and collisions forced an hourslong closure of Interstate 80 from west of Truckee, California to the state line west of Reno.
—Steve Leblanc, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
Among them is General Catalyst, which on Sunday announced a health business spinout with plans to buy a health system of its very own.
—Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 8 Oct. 2023
Popular products such as the Microsoft spinout XiaoIce are prohibited from discussing politically sensitive topics such as the Tiananmen Square protests or Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
—Helen Toner, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2023
Verb
Since going public, Endeavor also spun out its UFC business and merged it with the WWE to create TKO Group Holdings, a public company that will continue to be traded.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
As a result, Iran, through its axis clients—including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria—has tried to walk a fine line between responding to the demand for action and preventing axis responses to the Israeli offensive from spinning out of control.
—Joost Hiltermann, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
Spirit was spun out of Boeing in 2005 out of its misbegotten attempt to take assets off its balance sheet in order to improve its Return on Net Assets.
—Gautam Mukunda, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
About four minutes and 15 seconds into the chase, a supervisor is heard giving permission for a TVI, a controversial maneuver intended to force a driver into spinning out and coming to a stop.
—Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
But the issue of stability and who can restore it is a powerful one: Three of the issues that Republicans have taken advantage of this past year — inflation, crime and the border — all play on voters’ fears about events spinning out of control.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
The crash occurred around 10:40 a.m., when a single-engine Harmony LSA landed short on the northeast end of the runway and spun out, Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson Rick Breitenfeldt said.
—Nathaniel Percy, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
With their staccato wordplay and sinewy rhythms, the Last Poets were pioneers of performance poetry, spinning out portraits of Black street life that often bristled with the guerrilla spirit of revolution.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
The patrol says Harden spun out and was struck by a second car, a 2021 Chevrolet Equinox driven by a 19-year-old from Maineville.
—The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
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