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wind·ing up

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of winding up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of winding up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of winding up in a Sentence

  1. Adrian Loader:

    A lot of New Zealand private equity players are not raising money or they have got succession issues or they are winding up, so what you probably see is that more Australian people are doing Australia New Zealand deals.

  2. Ken Jacobson:

    We understand there is a market for war memorabilia and that serious collectors are interested in items like this, while we don’t have an issue with Nazi-era automobiles like this going up for auction, we would not want to see the vehicle winding up in the hands of someone who would use it to glorify Hitler or the deeds of the Nazis. Ideally, we would prefer to see it housed in a museum, so that it could be understood in its proper context.

  3. Jordan Poole:

    When most people are winding down, Howard Finster was winding up.

  4. Havelock Ellis:

    The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

  5. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

    Many old timers spoke of 'winding-up' a Model 'T' Ford to get it started: In the same time period, watchmakers had perfected time-pieces which required 'winding-up' only once in every eight days:


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