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Recent Examples of eddy
Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
The eddies spin up in the open ocean and race underneath ice shelves.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 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
In a more complicated setup, gentle currents might merge into whirlpools and eddies.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
The eddies spin up in the open ocean and race underneath ice shelves.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 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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Enrigue is an erudite, charismatic raconteur—the sort who will tell you the most abject story with a wink—and his novel distills a byzantine swirl of historical events through the lives of a handful of very colorful characters.—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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Add 1 tablespoon of reserved oil and swirl to coat the bottom and sides.—
C.W. Cameron,
AJC.com,
1 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Now, effects from the fresh conflict in the Middle East are rippling across the region, further fragmenting a once efficient and finely tuned global aviation network.—
Zach Levitt,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, news of the shooting was rippling through the neighborhood.—
Ruby Cramer,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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On Instagram, digital creator Kayleigh L'eon @kayleigh__eats picked up the Reese’s Marshmallow two-packs and shared her take on the sweet treat in a recent Instagram reel.—
Joseph Erbentraut,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Mar. 2026
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By the way, Driscoll had just 168 likes for her Facebook reel, while Wu had more than 1,600 likes.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
7 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Spend time in the private courtyard garden, complete with a bubbling fountain.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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With Liu's rise, her father's story bubbled up in China's social media, though any mention was usually brief and cryptic because the 1989 Tiananmen Movement — generally known as 6-4 for the date of the military crackdown, remains a deeply sensitive political taboo in China 37 years later.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The government considers all of this to be conspiracy-mongering spin.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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The researchers behind the new study had previously found that climate change affects day length, as rising ocean levels—caused by the melting glaciers and the dwindling polar ice sheets—affect Earth’s spin.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
13 Mar. 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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Any short-term relief provided by these loans is quickly erased when workers receive a fraction of their paychecks on payday and end up in a spiral, spending hundreds of dollars a year on fees.—
Christopher Greenwood,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Concerns that private credit could become the next pressure point on Wall Street are mounting, but industry pros said fears of a broader liquidity spiral may be overstated.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Rights to perform the show have now trickled down to community theaters.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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Strait of Hormuz transit slows to trickle Traffic is nearly nonexistent in the Straight of Hormuz, meanwhile, as oil tankers remain fearful that their vessels will be caught in the war’s crossfire.—
Pia Singh,Azhar Sukri,
CNBC,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Eddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eddy. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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