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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

They can’t recreate every wind puff and ocean eddy, so they divide the world into a 3-D grid and generate myriad variables for each box, from soil temperature to ocean salinity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

While that was soon to change, it meant that for books especially, 1996 was an eddy of calm before the meteor storm arrived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 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

Far away, upstairs, perhaps in the nursery, a little eddy of wind gathered itself and swept along the floor, carrying dust.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Scientists have proposed several possible explanations, including unusual wind behavior, ocean eddies, and cracks in the ice.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 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

Its brief, exquisite melody glides in like a slow tide, and eventually releases into eddies of improvisation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

But as it pushes up against the continental shelf, it can generate eddies, much like the revolving pools of water that form on the downstream sides of boulders in a river.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2024

They were making such an awful racket that the mullet scattered out of the eddies, and I knew that the fishing was pretty much shot for the afternoon.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

“You felt you were escaping the city when you went to 10th Avenue,” he said, retracing his steps as tourists eddied around him.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016

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

Such talk has swirled and eddied here since the mid-1980s.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2012

Around them eddied the murky water, bearing straw from the harvest, pieces of furniture, bobbing coffins released from cemeteries.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stood watching the river where it swung loping into a pool and curled and eddied.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

Sam shuffled along, clutching hard, and looking down into the pale eddying water as if it was a chasm in the mountains.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien