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adjective

variants or spiralling
Definition of spiralingnext
as in spiral

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spiraling

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verb

variants or spiralling
present participle of spiral
as in winding
to follow a circular or spiral course a narrow road spiraling up the mountain to the summit

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  1. spiral
  2. winding
  3. curving
Adjective
  • The spiral toy is designed to rest against your clit, while the internal nub creates a sensation of buzzy fullness.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 3 Nov. 2024
  • If there is hair on your head, that hair has at least one whorl in it—a patch of hair that grows out of the scalp in a spiral direction.
    Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of spiral
Verb
  • The character took a winding road from being singularly focused on her romance with the Joker to becoming one half of Harlivy.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Titanium With History The energy required to power the watch’s performance indicator is created by winding the aforementioned crank.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of winding
Verb
  • The flower’s strong, curving stem makes the work not so much forceful as definitive.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But by using the holographic dictionary to look at the particles from their other perspective, as a gently curving space-time, physicists can calculate the outcome using Einstein’s gravity equations and then translate the answer back to get a sense of how the nuclei would smash together.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of curving
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