eddy
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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 eddy covariance stations consist of instruments and techniques for calculating the flux of trace gases, like water vapor, coming off the land surface.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2024
Significant contributors to algae growth include nutrients flushed into the ocean by rain and winds that create an eddy effect in the channel and cause upwelling, Berman Kowalewski said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023
Kid Sampson, Nately and the others wandered apart in a noiseless eddy of motion and were sucked away into the cloying yellow stillness.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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