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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

I was afraid we would move out of the eddy and, holding with one hand, I drew up my feet so they were against the side of the timber and shoved hard toward the bank.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

“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

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

I wanted no one to see me, and the storm swirled its eddies of snow around me and obscured me from the world.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

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

A thousand conflicting feelings eddied in his head.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2012

They eddied down out of the aisles into a tight packed mass.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was on her knees, struggling to shove the mattress into the flames as thick grey smoke eddied around her and filled the room, when the door burst open and she heard her maid gasp.

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

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

Whichever the case, winds that normally blow west to east across the Pacific have been eddying into a south to north pattern as the atmosphere swirls like a whirlpool in a river.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2016

But mostly, we lollygagged in our treehouse, playing cards, reading novels and watching the waters eddying past us on the way to their dizzying plunge.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2015

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