gyre

And it eventually became a much-needed daily dose of serenity to keep the widening gyre of anxiety at bay.

Watching the gyre of emotions on campuses from Connecticut to California, those words feel as if they could have been written this week.

They were carried to the South Pacific by the South Pacific gyre, a circular ocean current.

As Carelli proceeds through the events leading up to that night, the gyre of his investigation widens, and Joan takes up less and less space in the story of her own death.

Similarly a recent study found that the lake’s waters contain microplastic concentrations higher than those observed in ocean gyres — systems of ocean currents notorious for accumulating plastic waste.