whirlpool
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In the meantime, Blackpool is stuck in a whirlpool, where cheap accommodation draws in people down on their luck, who in turn place huge strain on local government services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
On the way to port, a powerful wave struck from two directions creating a whirlpool, and the boat flipped.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Byrne’s own children, 7 and 9, helped her snap out of the whirlpool of emotion that was making “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
Someone who could possibly answer that question would be Ryuji, who in the end decides to satisfy his curiosity and give himself over to the whirlpool.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
She’d straightened something inside me, and I no longer felt like I was in a whirlpool or walking an ever-tightening spiral.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
Because the researchers find that these small whirlpools appear continuously wherever the magnetic field is sufficiently strong, the vortices could provide a persistent mechanism for twisting the Sun's magnetic field lines.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
The Corryvreckan whirlpool, between the islands of Jura and Scarba in the Inner Hebrides, is one of the largest whirlpools in the world and considered highly dangerous.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
Across the universe, the immense gravitational pull of black holes sucks up whirlpools of gas called accretion disks.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
When a superfluid rotates, little whirlpools, or vortices, develop.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 18, 2023
The wind kicks up, whirling leaves into little whirlpools.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Vocabulary lists containing whirlpool
Magical Mystery List D
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English Language Development Texts, Unit 3
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