1
as in to pull
to draw out by force or with effort
practically every word had to be corkscrewed out of the tight-lipped witness
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2
as in to curl
to follow a circular or spiral course
the trail corkscrews through dense woods to the top of the steep hill
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Recent Examples of corkscrew
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
The 160-foot-tall Vekoma Cliffhanger Tilt Coaster will tip riders 90 degrees straight down using the tilt track before releasing them into a pair of corkscrew inversions and 13 airtime moments.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2025
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
The sitting area had a dramatic brick chimney that corkscrewed from floor to ceiling.
—Kate Maxwell, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
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Adjective
In fact, Gaia has noticed this wobbling motion for numerous stars, so Stefánsson led a team of astronomers to follow up on these corkscrew systems.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
The 160-foot-tall Vekoma Cliffhanger Tilt Coaster will tip riders 90 degrees straight down using the tilt track before releasing them into a pair of corkscrew inversions and 13 airtime moments.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
Then James Cameron came aboard for Aliens and upped the velocity factor, essentially turning the 1986 sequel into a roller coaster dipping and corkscrewing on an extraterrestrial planet.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
The sitting area had a dramatic brick chimney that corkscrewed from floor to ceiling.
—Kate Maxwell, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corkscrew
Adjective
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Brecher's image captured spectacular detail in the sweeping spiral arms of the 260,000 light-year-wide galaxy gleaming with the intense light of star formation.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Now streaming on Disney+ When Tulip votes for The Two Shellys’ idea for the Halloween party theme, Jade and Posey spiral over Tulip bonding with The Shellys.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Pearsall appeared to have reaggravated his knee injury that was plaguing him all week, and he was pulled from the game.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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Russia launched its first major wave of missile and drone strikes on Ukraine in nearly a month, pounding sites across the country on Sunday and leaving Kyiv hardest hit as rescue workers scrambled to pull people from the rubble.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Once all of the hair is curled, Ngatikaura added texture spray to the entire head, using her fingers to pick the hair up and apply the product throughout.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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He was denied a goal in the second half with a curling effort from an acute angle that was cleared off the line.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
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Dense dust lanes can be seen coiling around Andromeda's glowing galactic center, which is thought to house a supermassive black hole 140 million times more massive than our sun.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The 2018 Farm Bill legalized the sale of hemp and cannabinoids extracted from it, like THCA, delta-8, HHC, THCV and CBD.—
Gina Lee Castro,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The best movies extract emotions from us, and watching the most objectionable material in Waters’ masterpiece from 1972 can feel like trying to hold puke back behind your eyeballs.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The impending Urban Cow Half Marathon, which will wind through the neighborhood on Sunday morning, wasn’t a concern, though, for several residents surveyed the afternoon before.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The winding Yampa River forms the heart of Yampa River State Park, just west of Steamboat Springs.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Sofia Coppola’s cult-favorite (if historically murky-at-best) 2006 film Marie Antoinette plucked the queen from history-book pages and pasted her on contemporary mood boards.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
2 Oct. 2025
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Simply plucking young stars from viewers’ social-media feeds won’t radically alter or refresh SNL.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Here the set becomes a comedy generator, a set of curving sides that Reeves can lean against and slide bonelessly down.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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Roll up each triangle, starting at wide end, and curve edges slightly to form a crescent shape.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
27 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Corkscrew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corkscrew. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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