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In one part of the conveyor system, a vibrating panel called an eddy current creates a sort of reverse magnet that repels nonferrous materials like aluminum beverage cans into their own collection area.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Navigating the galleries, which spill into each other, is akin to being dizzyingly spun from eddy to eddy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Temperature data from satellites and buoys revealed a large southbound eddy moving through the region, coupled with 4 days of strong easterly winds, fueled strong upwelling.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2024

The eddy covariance stations consist of instruments and techniques for calculating the flux of trace gases, like water vapor, coming off the land surface.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2024

As it increases its pace, the sea itself seems to resonate with its movement, beginning to revolve in a slow eddy, but quickly picking up speed.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

It happens through a combination of eddies, mixing, rotation and friction close to land.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“It’s a little bit like if you're kayaking in a river, and there's rocks underneath the water, sometimes there's eddies in the surface, which can tell you about the rocks under the water,” explained Ockenden.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

The sources of our malaise are deeper than the shallow eddies of fashion and entertainment in “Blank Space.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

But as it pushes up against the continental shelf, it can generate eddies, much like the revolving pools of water that form on the downstream sides of boulders in a river.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 15, 2024

So she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, unprepared for the gentle eddies of dust, the silver cobwebs, the mouse who lived—and welcome to him!—in a table drawer.

From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit

When even relatively happy, well-supported people become the primary caretaker of a very small person, they tend to find themselves eddied out from the world of adults.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2015

All around, the floor had grown treacherous from the slippery fallen gold, which eddied into corners, like piles of leaves.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015

Such talk has swirled and eddied here since the mid-1980s.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2012

Disquieting rumors eddied through the quiet corridors of slick, Hearst-owned Town & Country.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stood watching the river where it swung loping into a pool and curled and eddied.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Its ambiguities and enigmas add up to not more eddying confusions but to a stark reminder that the only reasonable response to grief is “life life life.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022

The crowds mostly kept a respectful distance but in sight of the gate, eddying like pilgrims gathered around a shrine, only breaking their vigil to watch a plane arc slowly by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2021

Whichever the case, winds that normally blow west to east across the Pacific have been eddying into a south to north pattern as the atmosphere swirls like a whirlpool in a river.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2016

The quartet's eddying strings didn't add much to her older material, as one mid-tempo, meditative, melodically extravagant song followed another.

From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 11, 2011

The farther trees looked shadowy, and almost black, and the stream was suddenly opaque, eddying about Kingshaw’s thighs.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill