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- verb Present participle of
spiral .
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Examples
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Council Chambers on Tuesday to discuss what he called the spiralling violence in the area.
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Amid mounting concern, Amnesty International has urged Bahrain's allies to press for an end to what it calls a spiralling human rights crisis.
BBC News - Home 2011
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The only thing spiralling is the water as we flush your silly nonsense criticisms down the proverbial toilet.
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The nature of this downward spiralling is to cause the orbit to become first nearly circular.
Sputniks 1958
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As he recalls the spiralling costs he yearns for the simplicity of shoestring nuptials.
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Chancellor Alistair Darling today told families to tighten their belts and accept lower pay or risk inflation 'spiralling' to the levels of the 1970s.
Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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SASI, a non-profit organisation launched four years ago to tackle the dire savings levels and "spiralling" household debt, also warned that 14 percent was not good enough.
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The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union expressed concern about "spiralling" killings of warders and urged the department to beef up security.
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O'BRIEN: So you say his career was kind of spiralling downward anyway.
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Cosatu's campaign on behalf of the working class would be aimed against capitalists because they were the ones cashing in on matters such as spiralling food prices.
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