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Recent Examples of furlPirate Yakuza proverbial monkey’s paw furls on providing a thrilling pirate life and crime simulator at the expense of a more coherent or emotional story.—Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025 Winehouse was entirely in her element, swaying to the sultry songs like a furl of smoke and improvising inflections on the lyrics with aplomb.—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 18 May 2024 McDonnell’s brow furls slightly underneath his cap.—Chris MacIas -, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024 From every officer’s belt there dangled an insectlike furl of disposable plastic manacles.—Caleb Crain, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019 Suddenly, billowing puffs of pollen furl out from the pine’s branches and float through the air like a fluffy, yellow cloud.—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 May 2018 Just look at Redbor kale, which is extravagantly purple, with rich pink in the stems, kinks of fuchsia in the veins, and furls of rosy curls.—Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 15 June 2017 Just look at Redbor kale, which is extravagantly purple, with rich pink in the stems, kinks of fuchsia in the veins, and furls of rosy curls.—Adrienne Rose Johnson, Bon Appetit, 15 June 2017
There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Apr. 2022
In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.
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Leo Rubinfien,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Feb. 2021
Some people may welcome that boundary as a safeguard against harmful spirals.
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Victor Dey,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Written by Randall Rydell Russell (The Hostage), the story follows a struggling screenwriter who finds his latest script mirroring real-life murders, plunging him into a paranoid spiral.
Ominous clouds prompted a diversion to the Trango Towers, a rampart of granite spires esteemed by big-wall climbers.
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Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
The alpine lake sits at around 10,000 feet in elevation, and is ringed by the Cirque of the Towers—a picturesque semi-circle of 12,000-foot granite spires that has long enchanted rock climbers and trekkers alike.
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