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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

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

The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like “an eddy in a river.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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

But then he heard a rustle and saw a little eddy of dislodged snow in the bush to which Hermione had pointed.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

In the case of the Agulhas Current, researchers in 2016 reported that since the 1990s its flow had grown broader and was more likely to create potent eddies.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2024

I was a river cloud, turning gently in the eddies.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“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

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

Such talk has swirled and eddied here since the mid-1980s.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2012

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

All around him the wind swirled and eddied, spinning snow into whirlwinds of wintery blankness.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

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

By increments we were blinded, the mainland dimming and the sun fading to a pale white bloom, and we turned circles in the eddying tide until we’d lost all sense of direction.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs