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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 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

There was a back eddy from where the water came around the big tree roots and such hanging down.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

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

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

Understanding how fish swim in eddies could also aid in habitat restoration, the team says, helping conservationists engineer more efficient fish passages through dams.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 5, 2024

He looked out at the river, at its eddies and swirls, the patterns forming on its surface and disappearing.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

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

A thousand conflicting feelings eddied in his head.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2012

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

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

At the third and fourth attempts to close it Williams could not control forehands from deep that caught the eddying breeze and had to fight through a third deuce point to get a fifth chance.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2018

A recurrent image of eddying muddy water corresponds with the characters’ inability to verbalize their feelings.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2012

But eddying blasts swirled round them from every side, and the snow flowed down in ever denser clouds.

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