spiral bandage

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A bandage encircling a limb, with successive turns overlapping the preceding ones.

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The now-convicted felons will hear their sentences in January, but their story continues to spiral downward.
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This downward spiral involving local power politics was obvious to the Americans in the valley.
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Without those subsidies, the worst-case scenario has Obamacare entering a fiscal death spiral.
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To his fellow survivors and to the audience, this delusion indicates another slip on a downward spiral.
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In 2008, it was looking at a death spiral: cut credit ratings, claims on the policies, and collateral calls.
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The organism is an actively motile spiral thread, about four times the diameter of a red corpuscle in length.
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See that silver spiral going out from Venus and around the table to the orbit of Saturn?
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His left arm, rudely bandaged in a shawl, hung heavy and useless at his side, and the bandage was saturated with blood.
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