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Reverting to old school psychological operations / media spin is her only weapon and it backfired.

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  1. transitive verb To draw out and twist (fibers) into thread.
  2. transitive verb To form (thread or yarn) in this manner.
  3. transitive verb To form (a web or cocoon, for example) by extruding viscous filaments.
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  • For example, the proton has a nuclear spin angular momentum quantum number of 1 / 2 and is known as a spin-1 / 2 particle. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Reverting to old school psychological operations / media spin is her only weapon and it backfired. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • I could go on about net neutrality, KBR government contracts, children's health care etc but disabilities and media spin are my pet issues today. by: you @ soon —  Blue Mass. Group - Front Page
  • Of course this leaves plenty of room for spin, but spin is always present in journalism anyway, and at least with blogs, the spin is not hidden. —  PureBlogging
  • The two have packaged their arguments in an airtight mathematical theorem that rests on what they say are three unassailable axioms which happen to rhyme -- spin, fin and twin. —  Princeton University Top Stories
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  1. Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English spinnen, spynnen (preterit span, plural sponne, past participle sponnen), from Anglo-Saxon spinnan (preterit spann, past participle spunnen) = Dutch spinnen = Middle Low German Low German spinnen = Old High German spinnan, Middle High German G. spinnen = Icelandic Swedish spinna = Danish spinde = Gothic (Moesogothic) spinnan, spin; prob. related to span (Anglo-Saxon spannan, etc.), from Teutonic √ span. draw out: see span. Hence ult. spinner, spindle, spinster, spider.
  2. from spin, v.
 

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