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vortex

[vawr-teks] / ˈvɔr tɛks /
NOUN
whirling mass of water
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On the island's downwind side, the satellite captured von Kármán vortex streets, which look like repeating swirls spinning in opposite directions.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

“Eventually, all those elements that you had initially to begin that vortex don’t line up anymore, and they go away on their own,” Prater said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 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

She just didn’t realize that she herself was going to get swept up into its vortex.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

In those final moments, as the eye of the vortex contracts toward me on all sides, the parrot’s words come back to me.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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