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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

The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like “an eddy in a river.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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 way the current worked here, once something floated into an eddy it had to be pushed out again.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Float and Fish excursion sends guests in kayaks along a clear and fast-moving section of the river, casting in pockets and eddies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

It was actually in the shallows, its feet lost in little foaming eddies that curled against the bank.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2012

Disquieting rumors eddied through the quiet corridors of slick, Hearst-owned Town & Country.

From Time Magazine Archive

I carefully marked where the churning waters eddied into a pool.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

In 2013 she rush-released single Neurotic Society, a mix of eddying electro and double-time stream of consciousness.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018

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