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vortex

noun as in whirling mass of water

Strongest match

Strong matches

Weak matches

noun as in whirling mass of air

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Another goal is to decrease the use of hazardous chemicals and reduce the size and energy demand of hardware by applying advanced predictive technologies for high-power vortices.

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Instead of relying on magnetic or electric polarization states, these materials contain vortices of electric dipoles.

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The stock market has hit a speed bump, not a yawning vortex of doom, as investors question the valuations of top tech and artificial intelligence stocks.

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I begrudgingly rise from my marshmallow chair and dart around the room, pulling comic books and toiletries into my suitcase like a speed-packing vortex.

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Still others have speculated that the sub was sucked into the vortex of the sinking warship and dragged to the bottom.

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