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Recent Examples of hankThere 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.—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.—Leo Rubinfien, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2021 If a breeze is blowing, the air fills with the clamoring of jib hanks.—Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 Open the other days of the week, the Shaker Store sells hanks of yarn, Shaker seeds, herbal teas, and Shaker brooms.—Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018 One photograph from the era shows a woman standing in a village as two men forcibly restrain her wrists; a third man grabs a hank of her blonde hair, his scissors poised to hack it away.—Ann Mah, Time, 6 June 2018 The next morning, the police and Victoria’s parents found articles of the girl’s clothing and a bloody hank of hair on a road near a sand pit in Mahwah.—David Stout, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017 By the time he’s done, the legendary Viennese doktor has been reduced to not much more than a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.—Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 Sep. 2017 The Shaker-style peg rack could hold hanks of yarn.—Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 1 Aug. 2012
Indeed, global features director and mattress reviewer Sam Cochran reported a similar experience when trying out the brand’s Lux Hybrid Mattress—which combines three layers of foam with a firm core support and contour-adapt coils.
The researchers, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), have used magnetic coils to apply a 3D magnetic field to a spherical tokamak to stabilize plasma for the first time.
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Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
China has long laid claim to the island and acting on those claims could lead to a spiral where Washington and Beijing come to blows over the issue—and nuclear use would remain a terrifying possibility.
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Lyle Goldstein,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
Stella’s undoing wasn’t a spiral contained to Season 4, though.
Its eponymous flowers are deep red-orange and the foliage is composed of whorls of needle-like, silvery-blue leaves.
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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
Pirate 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.
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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.
Way Day Decor Deals With Thanksgiving around the corner, now is an ideal time to add an inviting autumnal wreath to your home, especially while there are a variety of options on sale during Way Day.
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Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
If your favorite part of autumn is the rich, colorful leaves, this wreath is an easy yes.
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Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
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