as in vortex
water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the center
our rubber raft got caught in a maelstrom in a particularly rough stretch of white water
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Recent Examples of maelstrom
Amid the maelstrom, doctors, nurses, and other caregivers did their jobs.
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CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
Amid the maelstrom, doctors, nurses and other caregivers did their jobs.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Popular on Variety Robby, a calm and experienced leader with a phenomenal bedside manner, acts as a center of gravity in an ever-swirling maelstrom of doctors, nurses, students, social workers, ambulance drivers, administrators and patients.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Since then, Lively—along with Reynolds, to a degree—has found herself at the center of a fast-moving media maelstrom.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 4 Jan. 2025
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CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
Amid the maelstrom, doctors, nurses and other caregivers did their jobs.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Popular on Variety Robby, a calm and experienced leader with a phenomenal bedside manner, acts as a center of gravity in an ever-swirling maelstrom of doctors, nurses, students, social workers, ambulance drivers, administrators and patients.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Since then, Lively—along with Reynolds, to a degree—has found herself at the center of a fast-moving media maelstrom.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maelstrom
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Ours is the work of helping others hold those artifacts and insights in their hands, however briefly, and of considering what ought to be reserved from the ever-sucking vortex of oblivion—and why.—
D. Graham Burnett,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2025
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Even Andrew Madley, the referee, fell victim to the vortex of Paqueta’s aura when he was accidentally brought down by the Brazilian.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Maelstrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maelstrom. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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