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Other administration officials who tried to repair the ties concluded the issue had spiraled largely because the Justice Department and the FBI had mishandled it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

A month before this doctor’s appointment, lupus, the chronic autoimmune disease I had lived with for the past four years, had spiraled out of control.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2023

His defense argued that Muller had spiraled into mental illness.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2022

By the time his son Billy was born in Los Angeles 22 years ago this week, Jensen’s life had spiraled out of control.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2021

The machine droned away, pursued by the two or three airplanes that had spiraled up to attack it.

From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Emerson, Alice B.