whirlpool
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In the meantime, Blackpool is stuck in a whirlpool, where cheap accommodation draws in people down on their luck, who in turn place huge strain on local government services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Arisu and Usagi make it back to the real world, postponing their final whirlpool voyage to someday in the future, and instead choosing life.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
A boat with one person on board has been towed to safety after breaking down near the Corryvreckan whirlpool in Argyll and Bute.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
Charybdis, a mythical female sea monster, is often depicted as a bottomless sucking whirlpool, but there’s power in accepting your hunger, whether it’s for food or love or armies crossing the sea in boats.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
Everything that had been on the docks was now part of a wild whirlpool.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
Images and footage show "whirlpools" of activity that it has not been possible to see before.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
These eddies are like giant whirlpools and often reach the abyssal seafloor, resulting in seafloor erosion and large sediment accumulations called contourites, akin to snowdrifts.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
Across the universe, the immense gravitational pull of black holes sucks up whirlpools of gas called accretion disks.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
When a superfluid rotates, little whirlpools, or vortices, develop.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 18, 2023
But in several places, the waves swirled and tapered into pinecone-sized whirlpools.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing whirlpool
Magical Mystery List D
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"Milady Standard Cosmetology," Vocabulary from Part 5
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English Language Development Texts, Unit 3
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