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swirl

[swurl] / swɜrl /


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Often, it helps to see a visual representation of your finances in black and white so you can deal with the hard facts, rather than the swirl of anxiety that accompanies them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

IM-3 is expected to become the first mission to explore the surface of a lunar swirl, allowing robotic systems and deployed instruments to investigate this still mysterious region in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Dust devils are formed on warm, sunny days and are visible due to the dust or hay that they pick up and swirl around.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

But to show a live-action dancer partnering an animated figure in an entirely painted landscape as autumn leaves swirl in slow motion around them was another feat altogether.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

But water had begun a slow swirl around our legs, and I was afraid it would suck us under and bash us into the trees.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Pili has spent the week quietly slipping through corridors while the media storm swirls around Taylor.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Hockney’s largest canvas — at more than 7 feet tall and 20 feet wide — is filled with deft lines and Hockney’s signature swirls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

On the island's downwind side, the satellite captured von Kármán vortex streets, which look like repeating swirls spinning in opposite directions.

From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026

We note how the small scale, finely drawn swirls of her sleeve are challenged by the suave oval of her face and the emphatic line of her shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

But with everything underwater, and all kinds of unpredictable swirls and currents likely to have been born in the darkness, who knew where he might end up?

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

I joined six others on mats on the venue’s galactically swirled green-blue floors.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

After more than a year-and-a-half of intense spectacle and legal wrangling, Luigi Mangione appeared in a federal courtroom in New York on Friday as rumours swirled that he may plead guilty.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Questions swirled around whether players would decline the visit this year after it did not happen during a scheduled visit to Washington in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Growing up in southwest France, where her father made wine and her mother operated a bed-and-breakfast, Ms. de Ferrier enjoyed how the fragrance of the château’s garden swirled with the scents wafting from the kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Thoughts swirled around in my head and I tossed in bed.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

With bright colors and bold, swirling lines, his vivid imagery captured the era’s infectious optimism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

With questions swirling around whether the stay is permanent, reports have noted the couple intend to keep their existing homes in California and Portugal.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Ken Billington’s lighting and Constance Hoffman’s costumes, which featured swirling flared skirts in different candy-colored plaids for the female chorus, added to the effect, as did Ms. Zambello’s direction, which emphasized thrust rather than sweetness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Footage captured on Sunday in Greenwich Park, south-east London, showed a small whirlwind, or dust devil, swirling around people.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Her black kinky curls fanned around the familiar face like swirling hurricane clouds.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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