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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

The study builds upon the foundational Euler equation formulated by Leonhard Euler in 1757 to describe the flow of eddy currents.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023

The way the current worked here, once something floated into an eddy it had to be pushed out again.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

“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

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

It narrowed again and put a few rocks in your way and a few eddies to swirl you around and then maybe a sandbar to stop you short.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

“You felt you were escaping the city when you went to 10th Avenue,” he said, retracing his steps as tourists eddied around him.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 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

The current eddied around its gaping mouth and the cauldron seemed to be muttering defiance.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

But mostly, we lollygagged in our treehouse, playing cards, reading novels and watching the waters eddying past us on the way to their dizzying plunge.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2015

But the highlight was an impossibly sustained high harmonic, eddying above distant turbulence from the timpani.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2013

My eyes were covered and closed: eddying darkness seemed to swim round me, and reflection came in as black and confused a flow.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë