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maelstrom

[meyl-struhm] / ˈmeɪl strəm /


NOUN
whirlpool
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Anthony and Grietje left the maelstrom of 17th-century Amsterdam to start over in the New World.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Her motto is to keep a “cool head” amid the maelstrom.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

In Wales - a bigger test in a maelstrom and a test passed.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 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

Somewhere, the billion dreams of the town since its origin stirred in a maelstrom far from the reach of the shrimpers’ nets.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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