Just in front of the 40-yard-line, Jennings, without being able to set his feet, released a long spiral to the end zone while being blasted by the Eagles’ star defensive tackle.
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Michael Silver,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
These wars, along with the Bush tax cuts, started the budget deficit spiral that continues to this day.
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Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
Its eponymous flowers are deep red-orange and the foliage is composed of whorls of needle-like, silvery-blue leaves.
—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
7 June 2025
In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in anatomy went to an international team of scientists for their discovery that scalp hair whorls are more likely to spiral in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
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