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Eyewitness footage from the region captured the swirling vortex of the tornado looming in the horizon above houses and trees.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Until that inevitable conclusion, I’ll be rooting for Max Cady’s campaign against the Bowdens’ vortex of selfishness, which is entirely OK to do.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

The importance of frequent-flier points also would shock analysts emerging from a time vortex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The rotating vortex draws in large amounts of oxygen, creating a hotter and more efficient flame.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Suddenly realizing what he was doing, Rishi scrambled to help her, apparently consumed by a vortex of regret.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Her drawings, which come in sets of two or three near-identical shapes, have "a beautiful intricacy to them" and "look like swirling vortexes", he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

Its three suns move and align in such a way as to create regular but random apocalyptic events, from infernal heat to sudden ice ages to gravitational vortexes, that destroy the civilization again and again.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

Their findings revealed that swimmers can utilize water flow and vortexes more effectively as their speed increases.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

Mobulas are known to create vortex formations when feeding or resting, but this is the first time vortexes have been reported in a mating context.

From National Geographic ● Nov. 20, 2023

Little vortexes of dust spiral around the block as I step down from the trailer with my parents.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

The newly identified vortices could provide an important piece of that puzzle as well.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Small disturbances at that boundary can then grow into waves or swirling vortices.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

The phenomenon happens when fluids - in this case hot gases - slide past each other and cause small disturbances to grow into spiralling vortices.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Zooming in on the Sun's surface, the team captured a detailed view of swirling vortices.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin