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Recent Examples of eddy
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, in two of the four cases with moderate bubble size and density, the turbulence in the flow closely followed Kolmogorov’s predictions at small scales for eddies smaller than the size of the bubbles.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
As a result, other stray digital ephemera are sucked into this eddying body—fashion photos of NBA baller Chris Paul, a random clip of someone’s dad—all of them in conversation with one another.
—Jason Parham, Wired, 14 Feb. 2020
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Noun
With its welcoming yet offbeat eddies of piano, acoustic guitar, woodwinds, and horns, Heavy Metal was a far cry from Geese’s livewire rock.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, in two of the four cases with moderate bubble size and density, the turbulence in the flow closely followed Kolmogorov’s predictions at small scales for eddies smaller than the size of the bubbles.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
The crowd eddied, some with batons dancing concentrically around the wheel of fire, others collecting around two young men in white.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
As a result, other stray digital ephemera are sucked into this eddying body—fashion photos of NBA baller Chris Paul, a random clip of someone’s dad—all of them in conversation with one another.
—Jason Parham, Wired, 14 Feb. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eddy
Noun
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Through a scenic swirl of Chicago snow flurries, Johnson loved watching Kmet, from the fullback position, eliminate cornerback Dru Phillips.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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As conflicting accounts about what happened in Minneapolis swirl, state and federal investigators are now taking a closer look at Wednesday's fatal shooting of a driver by an ICE officer.—
Jennifer Mayerle,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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As a doctor is forced to flee Aleppo with her young daughter, one desperate choice sets off a chain of events that ripples across borders and interlocking stories.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
9 Jan. 2026
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Eventually the tables settled down, as applause rippled across the room at the announcement of each of the 10 film and TV winners and their clips.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The company has already tested personalized cartoons and reported many reels becoming viral.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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Every crumb, spill, or smudge is on full display, turning your floors into a highlight reel of grime.—
Marisa Suzanne Martin,
The Spruce,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The underlying tension was bubbling up to the surface.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Remove the foil and continue to bake until the lasagna is tender all the way through when pierced with a knife, the cheese is bubbling and the top is golden brown, about 15 minutes more.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Mindy Kaling put a modern spin on this wardrobe staple for her latest red carpet outing.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
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Across the state, there are nearly 50 distilleries that are putting hundreds of years of tradition into practice and making bourbon with its own Virginia spin.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The two halves of the hook move independently, enabling the device to knit or purl depending on which part picks up the first loop.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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There was no ocean, no sea in this part of Україна, only a purling river.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 May 2025
Noun
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China’s deflation trap China’s deflationary spiral will deepen and Beijing won’t do anything to stop it.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Knicks miss Josh Hart, but Hart’s absence shouldn’t have sent this team down a dark spiral.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Health care, housing, and education would be built to be affordable, driven by real results from the bottom up--not by party interests trickling down.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Jan. 2026
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Social media footage trickling out of Iran amid a blanket shutdown of internet and telecommunications networks showed hundreds of thousands marching and chanting anti-regime slogans across the country, with graphic scenes of bodies lying in blood.—
Arsalan Shahla,
Fortune,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Eddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eddy. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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