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churning

noun as in agitation

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The churning of warm and cool air in the atmosphere creates wind.

Once plate tectonics started, however, the convective churning of the mantle would have mixed up tungsten-182 with the other four isotopes of tungsten, yielding rocks with uniformly low tungsten-182 values.

The computer model also simulates how our brains process information, using the language of neuron activity and synapses, rather than the silicon-based churning CPUs in our current laptops.

The churning also keeps oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients cycling through the atmosphere, oceans and rocks — and chemically transforms them into forms that living organisms can use.

The churning of clients from one agency to another and the lack of will needed to stop this Sisyphean exercise is beyond frustrating.

Or fast-fashion chains like Zara and H&M churning out runway imitations.

There is all this churning violence out there of which probably 90 percent of Americans are barely aware.

But the proposition had eventually broken apart in the churning, acidic stomach of Washington politics.

And with consumer demand churning along, businesses will have to add more to their inventories than previously thought.

Families that do build petty empires flame out, but the grand empire ruled by our churning elites burns on, evidently, forever.

Dorothy felt very wretched, and set about churning that evening with a heavy heart.

The Boulogne boat had suddenly gone dark, and she heard the churning of the screw.

Next morning churning had again become loathsome, sweeping was hard work, and dinner was a barbarous institution.

The notes mingled with the churning of the screw and fell in the darkness beyond the ship's lights abroad upon the sea.

Rather a curious feature in these parts is that most of the farms have a large wheel for churning attached to the house.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to churning, such as: disturbance, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, and commotion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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