gyre
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The expedition will travel from Seattle to the Gulf of Alaska and then continue to the subtropical gyre, with a stop in Honolulu, Hawaii.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026
Even if the gyre of contemporary fandom demands mess, spite, flops and redemption arcs, Lipa glides over all of it, with morally sound politics and an immaculately tasteful book club to spare.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
They were carried to the South Pacific by the South Pacific gyre, a circular ocean current.
From National Geographic • Feb. 21, 2024
Thanks to a persistent circulating current known as a gyre, they’ve collected in a single spot in the middle of the north Pacific.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023
Gear: behaviour, fashion, dress; but, by another reading, the word is "gyre," and means fit, trance — from the Latin, "gyro," I turn round.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
Vocabulary lists containing gyre
"The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats
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"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
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Oceanography - High School
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