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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

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

Around us people begin to move, a swirling eddy of bodies rubbing our shoulders, beckoning us to join in.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Its brief, exquisite melody glides in like a slow tide, and eventually releases into eddies of improvisation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

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

As the scientists work to develop a fuller understanding of their findings, they hope it will lead to a better understanding of the interplay between eddies and waves in turbulent flows.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The thick mist swirled in gray eddies and curled about the trees.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2012

The old Anglo-American rivalry which eddied about Montgomery during World War II is now all but forgotten.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was on her knees, struggling to shove the mattress into the flames as thick grey smoke eddied around her and filled the room, when the door burst open and she heard her maid gasp.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

From the very start, the Americans were positioned deep in their own half of the field, absorbing pressure from the eddying Mexican attack, looking for an opportunistic moment to spring forward.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2015

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

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2013

But eddying blasts swirled round them from every side, and the snow flowed down in ever denser clouds.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien