spiral-bound
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of spiral-bound
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Evans told us about hand-delivering 535 spiral-bound copies of a self-drafted weaponization report to every member of Congress.
From Slate • May 28, 2026
At the bottom, I found it: a Mead brand spiral-bound notebook.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
However, after three weeks they suddenly took my diary off me because it was a spiral-bound notebook, which was a prohibited item.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024
These spiral-bound journals are the white whale of “Diary of a Misfit,” the key to unlocking Hudgins’s story and, ostensibly, to providing answers to the questions Parks asks herself.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
Then one day at the public library in Pawhuska I noticed, tucked amid volumes of Osage history, a spiral-bound manuscript titled “The Murder of Mary DeNoya-Bellieu-Lewis.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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