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verb

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Recent Examples of eddy
Noun
These eddies of gas throw out the big particles and keep the really fine dust, says Genge. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025 Highly nonlinear filaments, vortices and eddies start forming patterns and structured networks. IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 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 See All Example Sentences for eddy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eddy
Noun
  • Seconds later, it was revealed what the fish were running away from as a large humpback whale came up from the depths of the water in a swirl of bubbles.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Every offseason, the whispers of PGA Tour stars defecting to LIV Golf swirl like clockwork.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The program’s effects ripple through grocery aisles and beyond, said Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, a health policy researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
    JOSÉ LUIS VILLEGAS, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • When habitats sit close together, a single weak link can ripple across bird routes, pollinator paths, and seed banks.
    William Jones, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Tsitsipas was an alternate for the event, hailed even more so than Medvedev and Zverev as the Next Big Thing with his highlight-reel attack and flowing one-handed backhand.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Arora, a father of two, told the idea for the reel came from watching men confuse obedience with love.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The perfectly transparent water looks light turquoise and is completely free of plants because roots can’t take hold in the bubbling flow.
    Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The market’s internal weakness bubbled to the surface slightly on Tuesday.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • His spin move for a layup gave the Jayhawks a 17-6 advantage.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But for all of the multiplex-friendly fun Wright’s conjuring with this over-the-top spin on dystopian sci-fi blockbusters, the prevailing feeling here is dread.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Noun
  • This will continue for the rest of the month, although the backward spiral will not entirely take place in just Sagittarius.
    Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The Lincolnshire club had been locked in a spiral of decline in recent times — going from the second-tier Championship to National League North in the space of 12 years, amid financial chaos — but are now upwardly mobile once more, having won promotion back to the National League last season.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Rows of men, women and children, sweat trickling down their faces in the sweltering tropical heat, stepped forward one by one.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Then somehow — if the vision is strong enough and buzz reaches the right people — money naturally starts trickling in.
    Chris Cardillo, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Eddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eddy. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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