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vortex

[vawr-teks] / ˈvɔr tɛks /
NOUN
whirling mass of water
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Now it’s, “Hey, you got to reform. You’re going to play Coachella, because you have a song that has 800 million streams,” an insane algorithmic vortex that you cannot control.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

The Criterion Channel can be a vortex as inescapable as any Ferdinand Magellan encountered during his expedition that first circled the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Denford’s steadily growing “nobody cares” audience regularly tosses sticks of dynamite into that vortex in the name of protecting our sanity.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 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

And this, apparently, was what Hesterfowl was inspecting, stopping every so often to peer with a beady eye into a tiny blue vortex.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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