eddy

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

While that was soon to change, it meant that for books especially, 1996 was an eddy of calm before the meteor storm arrived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 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 place was a back eddy, a pool of jetsam beyond the pull of the main current, and that suited him just fine.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Float and Fish excursion sends guests in kayaks along a clear and fast-moving section of the river, casting in pockets and eddies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Understanding how fish swim in eddies could also aid in habitat restoration, the team says, helping conservationists engineer more efficient fish passages through dams.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 5, 2024

"The trick, we found, is to create a mixed cascade, where large eddies tend to split and small eddies tend to merge," said Fruchart.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The wind strengthened and blew paper cups and empty cigarette packs in eddies around the parking lots.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

A thousand conflicting feelings eddied in his head.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2012

All week long the rumors swirled and eddied through the windswept streets of Montreal; for one reason or another, by resignation, illness or dismissal, Msgr.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I don’t know,” he said; smoke eddied slowly from his nostrils.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

The score, at once predictable in the galloping rhythms and eddying climaxes and inventively unexpected in the use of solo instruments, is dazzlingly effective and wholly unmemorable.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2012

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

Not surprisingly, there was a large concentration eddying around the Fjerdan queen and her attendants.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo