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Example sentences for: spiraled

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Wouldn't we all have been better off, Sterba asks, if the United States, on its own, had dispatched a few warships to stop the Serbian barrage of Dubrovnik before it spiraled into the all-out war in Bosnia?
This wouldn't matter so much, except that that government borrowing has spiraled out of control.