death spiral

noun

1. (in pair skating) a dramatic movement in which the man spins his partner around him in a gradually increasing radius while he spins in place, holding the extended arm of the woman, who revolves around him on one skate with the other leg stretched out and gradually lowers herself backward until she is just above the ice surface.

Example Sentences

With “Grotesquerie,” Murphy tapped into the all-enveloping fear that the world is in a death spiral, building real-life metaphors into the horrors Lois dreamed of, including climate change, the loss of reproductive rights and the dehumanization of the unhoused.

From Salon

With “Grotesquerie,” Murphy tapped into the all-enveloping fear that the world is in a death spiral.

From Salon

How did 23andMe go from the peak of the double-helix to a death spiral?

From Slate

Murphy has dropped a few hints in interviews in saying he was inspired by the sinking feeling that the world is ending, sucked into the vortex of a death spiral between good and evil.

From Salon

Other elements of Tupperware’s death spiral sound like a more standard business story.

From Slate