Example Sentences

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After launching to space in 2013, the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope has been spinning in full circles every six hours, mapping all the stars it can see in every direction.

From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022

However, it remains unclear what exactly would happen to Iran’s current stockpile of highly enriched uranium and what it would be required to do with the advanced centrifuges it has been spinning.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

"For us, the energy meter has been spinning backwards, effectively", he says.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2022

And yet while much of the gymnastics world has been spinning out of control, rocked by sensational courtroom testimony and other revelations, there has been a seeming oasis tucked into the campus of U.C.L.A.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2019

One small changed family doesn’t calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson