vortex
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Even knowing what was happening as the campaign went on, I found it difficult not to get sucked into the vortex.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
“Eventually, all those elements that you had initially to begin that vortex don’t line up anymore, and they go away on their own,” Prater said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 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 trout rose without haste, a shadow in faint wavering increase; again the little vortex faded slowly downstream.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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