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Recent Examples of eddy
Noun
That is, some turbulent flows exhibit energy cascades, whereby large eddies transfer some of their energy to smaller eddies.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024 The closest comparison on Earth to an anticyclone is an ocean eddy, a swirl of water cut off from the normal ocean current with currents that move fast around a center while the center moves slowly through the ocean.—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
Verb
In the same way that eddies in a stream alter downstream currents, Elgindi’s work itself prompted a new round of mathematical discovery.—Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020 The toilets at home were white and eddied the business away.—Vanessa Martir, Longreads, 27 Nov. 2019 See all Example Sentences for eddy
Brown entered the pre-arrest Diddy rumor mill in October with an Instagram post that threw the death of Porter, in 2018 from lobar pneumonia, into question and effectively threw the tragedy into the swirl of questions circulating about Combs.
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Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Jan. 2025
He is scheduled to go on trial in April on federal corruption charges; his approval rating has fallen to record lows; nine top city officials have resigned amid a swirl of investigations; violence on the subway and scandal at the Police Department have undermined his agenda.
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
Given these facts, California’s fire devastation will ripple through the entire nation, and may be the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history.
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Sabrina Haake,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
Their actions can quickly ripple through the tech ecosystem, influencing hiring practices and overall corporate approach to talent management across the sector.
The most common countermeasures are hiring contractors to re-install piles into the ground in the spring or bubbling – propeller fans blowing warm water from the bottom up, which keep an area ice-free.
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Lauren Carpenter,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
Some springs no longer bubble up from the aquifer and even the largest are now seeing their flow steadily reduced.
Suarez Bakery and Barra Tres Leches French Toast: This delicious spin on a classic French toast, using three types of milk, is only available Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
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Sunny Hubler,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Jan. 2025
In these times, people like to point to certain things and bring a negative political spin to it.
As wildfires swept through neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles in January 2025, stories about residents there helping their neighbors and total strangers began trickling out on social media.
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James Kendra,
The Conversation,
20 Jan. 2025
With money now trickling in, the next step was attaching a director.
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