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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

One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

“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

The sources of our malaise are deeper than the shallow eddies of fashion and entertainment in “Blank Space.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

They found that as the Weddell Sea current flowed around Maud Rise, the turbulent eddies moved salt onto the top of the sea mount.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024

Then, as they drew near the far bank, Dicey felt the twists and eddies begin again.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

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

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

The old Anglo-American rivalry which eddied about Montgomery during World War II is now all but forgotten.

From Time Magazine Archive

He exhaled; the mist eddied, choking and acrid.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

The quartet's eddying strings didn't add much to her older material, as one mid-tempo, meditative, melodically extravagant song followed another.

From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 11, 2011

One of them was watching a flock of birds gulls, lifting and eddying and landing on the bridge railing beyond.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood