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In one part of the conveyor system, a vibrating panel called an eddy current creates a sort of reverse magnet that repels nonferrous materials like aluminum beverage cans into their own collection area.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Navigating the galleries, which spill into each other, is akin to being dizzyingly spun from eddy to eddy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Temperature data from satellites and buoys revealed a large southbound eddy moving through the region, coupled with 4 days of strong easterly winds, fueled strong upwelling.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2024

The group of scientists wondered if it was possible to make, and hold, medium-size eddies -- neither one big eddy, nor smaller and smaller ones.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The place was a back eddy, a pool of jetsam beyond the pull of the main current, and that suited him just fine.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

It happens through a combination of eddies, mixing, rotation and friction close to land.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Powerful currents twist and churn, creating swirling eddies that split into smaller and smaller vortices until their energy eventually fades away.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026

“It’s a little bit like if you're kayaking in a river, and there's rocks underneath the water, sometimes there's eddies in the surface, which can tell you about the rocks under the water,” explained Ockenden.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

The sources of our malaise are deeper than the shallow eddies of fashion and entertainment in “Blank Space.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Some were caught in eddies, others lodged among the stones, and a few raced on the current on their way to a larger stream.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

A hot wind eddied and swirled, and I listened as Marcio Morais, a herb merchant, explained how his grandpa, who was raised in the jungle, taught him to harvest herbs.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2016

When even relatively happy, well-supported people become the primary caretaker of a very small person, they tend to find themselves eddied out from the world of adults.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2015

All around, the floor had grown treacherous from the slippery fallen gold, which eddied into corners, like piles of leaves.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015

Everywhere it was the same last week: through Republican heartland from Iowa to Michigan, the throngs eddied around him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sky was a pale grey, and smoke eddied all around them.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It is so heavy that the building has cracked from the weight, and it seems to capture the cyclical eddying between creation and crumbling that so captivates the artist.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Its ambiguities and enigmas add up to not more eddying confusions but to a stark reminder that the only reasonable response to grief is “life life life.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022

The crowds mostly kept a respectful distance but in sight of the gate, eddying like pilgrims gathered around a shrine, only breaking their vigil to watch a plane arc slowly by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2021

The score, at once predictable in the galloping rhythms and eddying climaxes and inventively unexpected in the use of solo instruments, is dazzlingly effective and wholly unmemorable.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2012

One of them was watching a flock of birds gulls, lifting and eddying and landing on the bridge railing beyond.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood