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vortex

[vawr-teks] / ˈvɔr tɛks /
NOUN
whirling mass of water
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The noise - lasting and deafening - rose up and swirled around like a typhoon, gathering up everybody in its vicinity, delirious Hearts folk thrilled to be sucked into the vortex.

From BBC • May 4, 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

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 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

They were past the Teeth and out of the vortex and now, suddenly, the current was on their side, pushing them forward, taking them exactly where they wanted to go.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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