variants
also vortexes
as in gulfs
water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the center
a boat sucked down into the vortex
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Recent Examples of vortices
Sedona is known for its beautiful red rocks, energy vortexes and unique shopping and tourist opportunities, making Sedona more than just a good hiking spot.
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Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 11 Dec. 2025
There are many myths that try to explain Elqui’s mysticism, including energy vortexes.
—Emma Fritz, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
There are two of these polar vortexes -- one in the troposphere that affects weather every winter, and one in the stratosphere that contains much colder air but only affects the surface weather during winter less frequently.
—Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2025
These vortices are called flux ropes, and satellites had previously observed small flux ropes—but our work helped uncover how they are generated.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
The combination of flux-carrying B-L strings and superfluid-like PQ vortices could allow for the emergence of stable knot solitons.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
These vortices are called flux ropes, and satellites had previously observed small flux ropes – but our work helped uncover how they are generated.
—Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
By chance, the vortices helped clear dust from solar panels on the Spirit rover in 2009.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Researchers who created early tables that categorized different knots were driven by the idea that atoms were knotted vortices.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 11 Dec. 2025
There are many myths that try to explain Elqui’s mysticism, including energy vortexes.
—Emma Fritz, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
There are two of these polar vortexes -- one in the troposphere that affects weather every winter, and one in the stratosphere that contains much colder air but only affects the surface weather during winter less frequently.
—Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2025
These vortices are called flux ropes, and satellites had previously observed small flux ropes—but our work helped uncover how they are generated.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
The combination of flux-carrying B-L strings and superfluid-like PQ vortices could allow for the emergence of stable knot solitons.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
These vortices are called flux ropes, and satellites had previously observed small flux ropes – but our work helped uncover how they are generated.
—Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
By chance, the vortices helped clear dust from solar panels on the Spirit rover in 2009.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Researchers who created early tables that categorized different knots were driven by the idea that atoms were knotted vortices.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vortices
Noun
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The 50,000-square-foot wellness space channels the grandeur of Spain’s Alhambra Palace with intricate Moorish architectural influences and a lush courtyard, home to a private pool and waterfall whirlpools.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
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Water vortices, such as whirlpools, are little water whirls that spin around.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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This one’s closer to immersion therapy for phobias around motherhood, mental health, and emotional maelstroms that refuse to tamed or contained.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Vortices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vortices. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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