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vortex

[vawr-teks] / ˈvɔr tɛks /
NOUN
whirling mass of water
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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

Denford’s mission is to interrupt the spinning vortex of negativity in which the world is caught by redirecting our energy instead of contributing one more fiery rebuttal to sexist idiocy.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 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

Suddenly realizing what he was doing, Rishi scrambled to help her, apparently consumed by a vortex of regret.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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