vortex
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The combination creates a vortex effect, which pulls hot ash, embers and debris into a spinning column.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026
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
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
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 light was a vortex, thrashing, bellowing, threatening to swallow her whole.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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