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swirl

verb as in spin around

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In September, he dismissed social media rumors swirling about his health -- including false posts that he had died.

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"There's a lot of gossip which swirls around you," he says.

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In one of the more elaborate sequences mimicking the original we follow the Phantom as he whisks Christine down into the sewers and they board a boat amid swirling fog.

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These winds stir up dust into swirling columns called dust devils—rotating plumes of air and fine particles that sweep across the Martian surface.

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Home buyers and investors can’t ignore the politics currently swirling around the central bank.

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