gyre
Example Sentences
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As well as this endless redrawing of the lines, the story of the encyclopedia, in Garfield’s telling, is a continual push for more and bigger: knowledge’s widening gyre.
From Washington Post
McLeod kept data on when and where the shoes appeared, laying the foundation for noted flotsam expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer’s groundbreaking research on massive ocean currents called gyres.
From Washington Post
But then came a brace of developments that significantly widened the gyre.
From Seattle Times
"We uncovered no studies from the Indian, South Atlantic or western North Pacific gyres though there is extensive knowledge of surface debris accumulation in these regions," they found.
From Salon
Clearly, lack of “air” is not the problem for the life in gyre sediments.
From Scientific American
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