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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

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

They used these models to conduct fluid flow simulations that combined the methods of large eddy simulations and the Ffowcs-Williams-Hawkings analogy.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024

The timber swung slowly so that the bank was behind me and I knew we were in an eddy.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

It happens through a combination of eddies, mixing, rotation and friction close to land.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Float and Fish excursion sends guests in kayaks along a clear and fast-moving section of the river, casting in pockets and eddies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

But as it pushes up against the continental shelf, it can generate eddies, much like the revolving pools of water that form on the downstream sides of boulders in a river.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2024

At a particular point, they began to see patterns instead of random eddies.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The problem was most notable in the transonic range, as the eddies of air surrounding an object approached the speed of sound.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

All week long the rumors swirled and eddied through the windswept streets of Montreal; for one reason or another, by resignation, illness or dismissal, Msgr.

From Time Magazine Archive

He breathed, and the mist rose, and with it a wind that eddied at Christopher’s feet.

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

At first, it’s loose and tidally pooling and eddying.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 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

In 2013 she rush-released single Neurotic Society, a mix of eddying electro and double-time stream of consciousness.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018

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