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Recent Examples of vortexRescuers ended up using ropes and a piece of equipment called the Arizona vortex, which was invented in northern Arizona.—Holly Williams, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026 Sections of the granite supports of the Keck statue are cannily manipulated and embellished with stars and swirling vortex-forms in Lithichrome paint into works of art themselves.—Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026 Krüger spent almost two years training Filou to select the bigger of two vortex rings generated artificially underwater.—Ari Daniel, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026 The cloud patterns are far too regular; realistic imagery shows a much more mottled vortex.—Big Think, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for vortex
It’s been roughly 45 days since negotiations began around a revision of the network’s rights deal with the NFL, and while CBS’ parent company has an awful lot on its plate at the moment, the gulf between expectation and reality is yawning.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
1 May 2026
Pearl Hotel greets guests with coastal charm and a warm aesthetic, plus a gulf view.
Two boys tussling over a bladder in a three-foot-high canvas painted by Joseph Wright of Derby in the late 1760s snarl up in a whirlpool of pain, each twisting the other’s right ear.
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Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
The whirlpool hot tub came in handy a few times, after snorkeling in unusually cold waters.
Blue Hill, as a private nonprofit, avoided much of this maelstrom.
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Laura Martin Agudelo,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
Now, however, a study published today in Nature is challenging this sedate view, suggesting instead that the solar system’s first solids stormed into being much faster from sudden temperature shifts in the disk’s turbulent maelstrom.
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Javier Barbuzano,
Scientific American,
22 Apr. 2026