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spiralling

verb

  1. UK, gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of spiral Speaking to Parliament on March 23, Sunak announced a temporary cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre to hard-pressed motorists who have faced spiralling prices for diesel and petrol in recent weeks.

noun spirallings

  1. Movement in a spiral. c. 1949-1950, Theodore Roethke, In the Bush of her Bones Dear witch, dear devious dove, I halfway know / The meaning of these giddy spirallings.

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@misc{spiralling_2026,
  title = {spiralling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spiralling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}