vortex
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The noise - lasting and deafening - rose up and swirled around like a typhoon, gathering up everybody in its vicinity, delirious Hearts folk thrilled to be sucked into the vortex.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Now it’s, “Hey, you got to reform. You’re going to play Coachella, because you have a song that has 800 million streams,” an insane algorithmic vortex that you cannot control.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
The Criterion Channel can be a vortex as inescapable as any Ferdinand Magellan encountered during his expedition that first circled the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The magnons transfer some of their energy to the vortex core, causing it to move in a tiny circular path around its center.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
“Don’t, Adam. Don’t. It’ll create an infinite vortex, and we’ll fall in and never come out.”
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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