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maelstrom

[meyl-struhm] / ˈmeɪl strəm /


NOUN
whirlpool
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Winfield and Buss weren’t the only names associated with the sports world to wade into the mayoral maelstrom.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Welcome to Wild Wednesday when a maelstrom of factors leaves the stock market needing some of its most trusted Big Tech names to lead it through the chaos.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

The 31-year-old wife of Brooklyn Beckham has found herself in the centre of a media maelstrom following her husband's explosive social media post taking aim at his A-list parents, Sir David and Lady Victoria.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

The maelstrom roared around him, up and up like the walls of a green well, with the bright eye of the sky and the silhouettes of the Crux and the Current circling far above.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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