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the same motion that wins skaters gold and ruins a politician's morning.
means To turn rapidly around a center point, or — figuratively — to present information with a deliberate slant that flatters one side.
from From Old English 'spinnan,' to draw out and twist fiber into thread — the work of the spinning wheel. That sense of twisting filaments into something continuous is why we 'spin a yarn' (a tale) and why a 'spin doctor' twists facts into a more flattering thread. The dizzying physical sense — a spinning top, a skater's spin — grew naturally from the wheel's whirl. It's a cousin of German 'spinnen' and Dutch 'spinnen,' all reaching back to a Germanic root for stretching and twisting.
- figure skating
- Top spinners exceed 300 rotations per minute
- physics trick
- Arms pulled in conserve angular momentum, speeding rotation
- earth's spin
- Equator hurtles eastward near 1,000 mph
- language
- Political spin doctoring dates to 1980s America
- cats
- Falling cats spin midair to land upright
figure skating spin — kamila valieva's 2022 olympic triple axel with combination spins, fastest at ~300 rpm
earth's axial spin — planet rotating 1,040 mph at equator, one rotation per 23 hours 56 minutes
pulsar psr b1509-58 — neutron star spinning 600+ times per second, located in circinus constellation