entrained

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Partial melting of the mantle releases CO2 that becomes entrained in hydrothermal fluid, reacts with the mantle closer to the seafloor, and is captured there.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

The colossus is presently entrained in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the great sweep of water that circles the continent in a clockwise direction.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

“That will allow us to remain more stably entrained to the light-dark cycle,” Zee says.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

In big wildfires, nitrogen oxide released from plants by flames is entrained in smoke and wafted into the upper troposphere by the fire’s heat.

From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 2022

Colonel Orellana had marched southward round the swamps, while General Carabaño had entrained his men beyond the culvert and started down the line, presumably to return to his camp at De Mello's hacienda.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert