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Zen spin verb. To spin a story by not doing any spinning at all.

Example Citation:
"The benefits of spin were being canceled out by the press's resistance to it. Often we reacted by spinning even harder, but I was beginning to see the virtue in just letting stories go—Zen spin."
—George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human

Related Words:
spin
spinnable
Spinnish

Subject Category:
The World - Politics

Posted on June 7, 1999 at 11:58 PM


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