entrained

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Partial melting of the mantle releases CO2 that becomes entrained in hydrothermal fluid, reacts with the mantle closer to the seafloor, and is captured there.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

The colossus is presently entrained in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the great sweep of water that circles the continent in a clockwise direction.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.

From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 2022

Closer to the Interstate 95 corridor, the threat of widespread heavy rainfall and flash flooding is low, but tropical moisture entrained and dragged northward by Fred could enhance downpours in the Mid-Atlantic. on Wednesday.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021

My own regiment, the Twenty-sixth Infantry, entrained early in June at San Benito, Texas, and came to the port of embarkation, New York City.

From Average Americans by Roosevelt, Theodore