Thesaurus results for SPINDLE

spindle

verb

Definition of spindle

as in to pink

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Recent Examples of spindle The pitching staff has been folded, spindled and mutilated but keeps on trucking. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026 Ask New England coach Mike Vrabel, too, whose rookie left side of tackle Will Campbell and guard Jared Wilson were folded and spindled too often by Seattle’s pass rushers. — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026 Hollywood isn’t the first industry to get folded, spindled, and mutilated. — Lauren Bans, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2026 The Safavieh Parker Dining Chairs are the perfect mix of farmhouse and transitional style with their durable oak wood frame and spindle flat-back design. — Sanah Faroke, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023 For robots and things of that nature, servo motors for robots, but also spindle and stepper motors for various applications. — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2022

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Verb

Summersweet blooms throughout summer, producing six-inch spikes of white to pink flowers against glossy, dark green foliage.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026
Just why so many of the game’s manufacturers have all pledged to pink simultaneously is a little less obvious, explains New Balance head of product for soccer Rob Sheldon.

— Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 22 June 2026

Definition of pink

Verb

Use the lancing device (with a new lancet each time) to obtain a drop of blood from the side of your fingertip.

— Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 30 June 2026
They were lanced by the Vegas Golden Knights, 5-1, and eliminated from the playoffs in Game 6 of their second-round series after falling behind by three goals in the first period.

— Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 15 May 2026

Definition of lance

Verb

One of them apparently hooked the fish, but the shark spat out the bait, according to Kohanchi’s account of events in the video.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
When most of us think about edible seeds, our minds usually jump to chia seeds stirred into smoothies or overnight oats, pumpkin seeds roasted after carving jack-o'-lanterns each fall, or sunflower seeds chewed and spit out at a baseball game.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of spit

Verb

While the gold seemed all-but hers, Andrade came up short on her second vault, a comparatively simple Lopez vault, piking down and stepping over the line to incur a neutral deduction.

— Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023

Definition of pike

Verb

And beyond that, three specific types of jobs have spiked in remote job listings by as much as 35% for the first six months of the year, compared with the prior six-month period.

— Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
In any event, growth after 2010 was so weak that despite very low interest rates, debt-to-income ratios continued to climb and soon spiked even more than in the first year of the financial crisis.

— Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of spike

Verb

At the time, Valli’s rep told Variety in a statement that the musician decided to cancel the shows instead of rescheduling them so that his fans with tickets would not be stuck in limbo.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
Stickers are stuck in the wrong spot, Trevor Etienne gets put on the board when it was meant to be his brother Travis, and owners look frantically for a Stefon Diggs or Keenan Allen sticker that doesn’t exist in the pack.

— Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026

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