spindles

present tense third-person singular of spindle

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spindles
Verb
  • The White House warned that Americans should expect airport delays and disruptions if the shutdown spills into the Thanksgiving holiday, when travel historically spikes.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • By the time Mercury and Mars enter your sign, your energy spikes with passion and enthusiasm.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With off-putting brusqueness, the acupuncturist sticks needles into my head and left leg, leaves the room—and appears to forget all about me.
    Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Robbie and Jayson have a furious battle, but Jayson sticks the fatal knife stab before fleeing.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Central Arkansas Water, the regional water utility that provides drinking water to Little Rock, chose to raise rates in January 2023, adopting a 10-year schedule of increases that runs through 2032.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There’s kayaking and rafting on the Animas River that runs through town, hiking part of the Colorado Trail, and easy access to mountain biking in the Horse Gulch trail system, which takes off from right in town.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, a story from Indiana explains how one bird species skewers its prey on barbed wire, then returns for it later.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Wall skewers America’s adoption industrial complex which has worked to take Native babies and children by force or funny business from Native families and communities and place them in white homes for 100 years.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Recounting his visit with Shelton’s body after she’d been taken off of life support in From Bleak to Dark, Maron punctures the somber scene with a joke about taking a selfie.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Alex breaks free and, in a panic, repeatedly stabs Evelyn with the syringe.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Spike takes one of Kelson's tranquilizer darts filled with morphine and stabs Samson in the arm with it.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The day of the invasion had been thick with heat, the kind that made the air above the sidewalk kebab spits ripple with diesel smoke.
    Vidushi Mishti Sharma, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But the ocean spits her back out.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Peruse our top picks for the best straight-leg jeans on the market, with tons of style options to fit your own aesthetic sensibilities.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Recent research finds a similar curse afflicts National Football League teams that compete to acquire one of the top picks in its annual draft of new players.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Spindles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindles. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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