: a game in which two teams of four players each slide curling stones over a stretch of ice toward a target circle
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On top of the table her purse flopped open and from its mouth spilled curling checkbooks, loose cash, half a muffin in a napkin and bottles of Chinese herbs.
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Nicole Stanton, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
But Jansen Miller’s clearance inadvertently went straight to Pompeu at the top corner of the box, and his curling shot was unstoppable.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
The detailed curling brush works in tandem with copolymers to hold lash curl no matter what.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2025
One growing increasingly more indisputable as Claudia Pina dinks a curling effort in off Chelsea goalkeeper Hannah Hampton’s far post, putting Chelsea 3-0 down before half-time in their Champions League second-leg semi-final and the Stamford Bridge home crowd to a reality check no one wanted.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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Nicole Stanton, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
But Jansen Miller’s clearance inadvertently went straight to Pompeu at the top corner of the box, and his curling shot was unstoppable.
—Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
The detailed curling brush works in tandem with copolymers to hold lash curl no matter what.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2025
One growing increasingly more indisputable as Claudia Pina dinks a curling effort in off Chelsea goalkeeper Hannah Hampton’s far post, putting Chelsea 3-0 down before half-time in their Champions League second-leg semi-final and the Stamford Bridge home crowd to a reality check no one wanted.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Curling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curling. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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curling
noun
curl·ing
ˈkər-liŋ 
: a game in which two teams of four players slide special stones over ice toward a target circle
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