vortex
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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
The combination creates a vortex effect, which pulls hot ash, embers and debris into a spinning column.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 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
She just didn’t realize that she herself was going to get swept up into its vortex.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
Nailer dragged himself out of the vortex and clung to the rail.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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