- present participle of spiral.
spiraling
Americanadjective
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in the pattern or shape of a spiral.
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moving or operating in a spiral pattern.
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The economies of the region, he warned, couldn’t “keep pace with the burdens imposed by a spiraling birth rate.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Their stock prices have been plunging for months, as the war in Iran has sent inflation and mortgage rates spiraling upward.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The writing grows spiraling and obsessive as it develops each possibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
In satellite images nor'easters can look strikingly like a hurricane, with spiraling clouds forming over the ocean that span hundreds of miles of coastline.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
If I was the one spiraling, she tried to calm me down.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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