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

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

Debris can also be seen falling from above and becoming entrained in the apparent vortex, indicative of a probable EF0 or EF1 tornado.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2022

Only a night in the city and again we are entrained for Nottingham. 

From From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. by Wardle, J.