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spindled

verb

past tense of spindle

as in impaled

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Neighbors say deer could potentially be impaled, and there’s also the threat of raw sewage backing up into adjacent houses.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 11 Oct. 2026
Just as Wolvie is hot on their trail, he’s impaled by a harpoon and the demo sadly comes to an end.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

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Pelicans swooped overhead and night herons, with spiky yellow feathers flying from their heads, goofily pecked the grass for insects.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
As Cadeau pecked his way through the blue-and-maize confetti littering the court, Justin did a quick change.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026

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Masters of the Universe was a bomb for Amazon MGM Studios this summer, while the new Matchbox movie — made with Skydance and on Apple TV+ today, was skewered by critics.

— Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026
Early 2020s prestige television skewered the rich and unscrupulous.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026

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Workers have been increasingly jabbed while on the job as needle-style medications — more specifically GLP-1s — have risen in popularity.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu jabbed back against the prevailing narrative yesterday, saying she was never invited to participate in the WNBA’s 3-point contest this weekend.

— Chris Branch, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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Although the book includes a disclaimer that all its characters, apart from a brief appearance by Belmonte, are fictional, its protagonist is transparently based on Manolete, who had been fatally gored in 1947.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
He had been gored by a rogue elephant and claimed to have shot 53,000 crocodiles.

— Stanley Stewart, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026

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