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 group of scientists wondered if it was possible to make, and hold, medium-size eddies -- neither one big eddy, nor smaller and smaller ones.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
Large magnets pull out metals; aluminum is itself magnetized using what’s known as an eddy current to draw it out.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024
James was a great wave and Basil Davidson was a swirling eddy, tossing me about.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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