vortex
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The duo rose to prominence together, even as the music sounded more and more like it was lost in a vortex.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
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
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 trout rose without haste, a shadow in faint wavering increase; again the little vortex faded slowly downstream.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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