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vortex

[vawr-teks] / ˈvɔr tɛks /
NOUN
whirling mass of water
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Denford’s steadily growing “nobody cares” audience regularly tosses sticks of dynamite into that vortex in the name of protecting our sanity.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

While conducting research in the Prussian state archives in Berlin in the 1990s, he chanced upon the details of a “small vortex of turbulence” in Königsberg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

This is just one of a host of ways environmental decisions are being sucked into the vortex that is Europe's energy debate.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

My mind spun like the vortex of a tropical cyclone.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd




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