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spirals

  • plural of spiral.
  • present tense form of spiral (3rd person singular).

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Spirals always begin and end with longing, and this is true throughout “Real Life.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

Spirals — carved into the Westray Stone, a magnificent tomb relic — crop up on a ceramic sherd in a newly ploughed field.

From Nature • Sep. 15, 2019

This is Scales’ latest book, following on the heels of "Spirals in Time," a biography of seashells and the animals that make them.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2018

Spirals were galaxies in which star formation occurred slowly over the entire lifetime of the galaxy.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Spirals of ice erupted from the snow walls on either side of the wind doors, gleaming with terrible beauty in the light of the green dome.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley