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maelstrom

[meyl-struhm] / ˈmeɪl strəm /


NOUN
whirlpool
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“History” is a major player in this breathless narrative, as in “gales of history,” “maelstrom of history,” “winds of history,” “tide of history” and the “frenetic pace of history”—all within a few dozen pages.

From The Wall Street Journal

There is instead a shape-shifting maelstrom of quarks, and physicists can map quark distribution to estimate the proton’s size.

From Scientific American

The onslaught has swept Albania, a Balkan nation with fewer than three million people, into a maelstrom of uncertainty and plunged it into big geopolitical battles involving Iran, Israel and the United States.

From New York Times

Seventy-five minutes is all it takes for Leon, Kennedy and McDonald to sweep us, too, into the maelstrom.

From Washington Post

Still, Republicans are betting that the imprimatur of congressional hearings will convert this non-story into a media maelstrom.

From Salon