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to follow a circular or spiral course
a vine coiling around a pillar
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Recent Examples of coiled
Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Anyway, because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical), it wasn’t coiled that weekend.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Photos from the organization show the python safely coiled on a white towel after it had been brought in.
—Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
For loc’d and tightly coiled textures, where rinsing is more difficult, a detox is even more important.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
Forty-five minutes later, the racetrack appears almost without warning — coiled like a basking viper in the Tuscan countryside.
—Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
The skunk with distemper is stuck in the window well again, chewing incessantly on the garden hose that is coiled up in there.
—Miriam Toews
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Inside each 13-centimeter-long rectangular 8-track cartridge is a loop of almost 1 cm-wide magnetic tape that is coiled around a circular reel, as explained in an EverPresent blog post on the technology.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
Just grab it and don’t get coiled.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
Enormous ventilation pipes were coiled like snakes on the roof of the building.
—Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Anyway, because of the *slightly* complex situation with the aneurysm (nothing bad, just not typical), it wasn’t coiled that weekend.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Photos from the organization show the python safely coiled on a white towel after it had been brought in.
—Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
For loc’d and tightly coiled textures, where rinsing is more difficult, a detox is even more important.
—Larry Stansbury, Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
Forty-five minutes later, the racetrack appears almost without warning — coiled like a basking viper in the Tuscan countryside.
—Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
The skunk with distemper is stuck in the window well again, chewing incessantly on the garden hose that is coiled up in there.
—Miriam Toews
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Inside each 13-centimeter-long rectangular 8-track cartridge is a loop of almost 1 cm-wide magnetic tape that is coiled around a circular reel, as explained in an EverPresent blog post on the technology.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2025
Just grab it and don’t get coiled.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coiled
Verb
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Dressed in an angelic all-white ensemble, Stewart’s hair is longer than most would recognize now and slightly curled.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Perhaps, curled inside the turbulent virginal atmosphere, Helm dreams of being a storm, has a prophetic vision of destruction, feels a natural calling.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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On the far right side, a giant elliptical galaxy appears to have a stream that connects it to a group of galaxies that exhibit spiral and disk-like features, with stellar streams abounding in that galaxy group or cluster.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Nov. 2025
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This track has more spiral turns than any other track previously created by Andretti.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In car design, that meant a short roof that curved downward, for a sleek stylish look that did not preclude four doors.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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But by the early 19th century, some mathematicians had started exploring other kinds of geometric spaces — ones that aren’t flat but rather curved like a sphere or saddle.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Afterwards, Canadian downtempo duo Freak Heat Waves pulled a projector screen down from the ceiling and got to work swirling house, psych-rock, dub, and trip-hop into an entrancing, yet slightly somber zone.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
6 Nov. 2025
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On the third day of their search, as Bruce waded into the water holding a safety line, feeling for the man with his feet, swirling currents swept him away.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Launched in February 2020, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has been following a looping path around the Sun.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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Key qualities are the multicolor LED lights and sound machine functions (30 non-looping sounds, by the way).—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Coiled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coiled. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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