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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

That adds extra freight to his reminder that Katrina’s tragedy was entirely manmade — a whirlpool of failed levees, systems and common bloodthirsty inhumanity.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025

The Corryvreckan whirlpool, between the islands of Jura and Scarba in the Inner Hebrides, is one of the largest whirlpools in the world and considered highly dangerous.

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

And then the Third Gate stood open in front of us, a crystal doorway leading into a spinning whirlpool of stars.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Because the researchers find that these small whirlpools appear continuously wherever the magnetic field is sufficiently strong, the vortices could provide a persistent mechanism for twisting the Sun's magnetic field lines.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Images and footage show "whirlpools" of activity that it has not been possible to see before.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

In the Stepstones they had taken on grain and game and fresh water, after the long voyage along the bleak and barren coast of Dome with its shoals and whirlpools.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin