vortex
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Denford’s mission is to interrupt the spinning vortex of negativity in which the world is caught by redirecting our energy instead of contributing one more fiery rebuttal to sexist idiocy.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The magnons transfer some of their energy to the vortex core, causing it to move in a tiny circular path around its center.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
This is just one of a host of ways environmental decisions are being sucked into the vortex that is Europe's energy debate.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
They were past the Teeth and out of the vortex and now, suddenly, the current was on their side, pushing them forward, taking them exactly where they wanted to go.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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