vortex
Example Sentences
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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.
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
She just didn’t realize that she herself was going to get swept up into its vortex.
From Salon
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
With the tumour in the speech vortex of her brain, Lauren was unable to speak for weeks after surgery and lost a lot of her cognitive function.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
