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Recent Examples of eddy
Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
While turbulent flow is chaotic and irregular, as a fluid’s movement causes larger vortices or eddies to form and break down into smaller ones, physicists have long attempted to study and model the process using mathematical equations and computers.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
The toilets at home were white and eddied the business away.
—Vanessa Martir, Longreads, 27 Nov. 2019
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Noun
Readers who crave hard-shell explanations of time travel or who need to know exactly what mechanism causes the continuum to loop and create an eddy will have to look elsewhere.
—Meg Elison, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
While turbulent flow is chaotic and irregular, as a fluid’s movement causes larger vortices or eddies to form and break down into smaller ones, physicists have long attempted to study and model the process using mathematical equations and computers.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
In the same way that eddies in a stream alter downstream currents, Elgindi’s work itself prompted a new round of mathematical discovery.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
The toilets at home were white and eddied the business away.
—Vanessa Martir, Longreads, 27 Nov. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eddy
Noun
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Complex and distinct swirl of aromas of chalk, cola, maple syrup, dark chocolate, gorse, bacon and red plums.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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With verve and drama, Durham draws us into the swirl of Soviet dancers, defectors, filmmakers, and politicians.—
April Austin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Government employees make up a small share of the overall workforce, but the effects of nixed contracts could ripple out to the private sector.—
Courtenay Brown,
Axios,
6 Mar. 2025
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Inflation-weary consumers are already starting to rein in their spending as uncertainty ripples through households.—
Lucy Bayly,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The blogger expressed her jubilance in an Instagram reel.—
Bryan West,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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Witty's reel has been viewed over 2 million times, with many moms sharing what happened when their waters broke.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
1 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Signs of the damage this psychological blow has inflicted are already bubbling to the surface.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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Scalding groundwater still bubbles to the surface in places.—
Brent Crane,
The New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Tucked within its bouquet of lily of the valley, rose, and peony, wild strawberries add a berry-fresh spin to the whole garden fantasy.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
3 Mar. 2025
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As an ever-expanding culinary hotspot, Baton Rouge’s local restaurants and bakeries add a unique flavor to the festivities, putting creative spins on the King Cake – from King Cake Calzones and Macarons to King Cake Sushi Rolls and Croissants.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The selection also features Syrian director Anas Khalaf’s Love 45 about an overweight Lebanese man who is caught in a destructive spiral, which is in production.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
5 Mar. 2025
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This season also launched the Spark model, a new snake made of luminous stones that wrap around the ankle in a spiral of crystal baguettes.—
Stephen Garner,
WWD,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The most likely scenario is that elements of these designs trickle down into final products, perhaps in more refined or simplified forms.—
John Burek,
PCMAG,
2 Mar. 2025
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One senior British military official and a former U.S. official said while military and defense-focused officials embroiled in security debates feel the urgent need for increasing defense spending, this had not trickled down to the ordinary person in several NATO countries.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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While navigating the left curve, the HR-V driver activated her left turn signal and began to slow down to make a left turn into the driveway when the Accord driver, identified as Leblanc, allegedly struck the HR-V from behind causing the HR-V to strike a tree, the warrant affidavit said.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2025
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The Keeling Curve goes precipitously up; the curve of basic national responsibility is curving sharply down now.—
Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Eddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eddy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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