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vortex

noun as in whirling mass of water

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noun as in whirling mass of air

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Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”

Yet not everyone is caught up this vortex of paralysis and resentment.

She would leave every day of shooting during the polar vortex just grinning from ear-to-ear.

No, that would be Baia, a popular Roman resort once described by Seneca the Younger as a “vortex of luxury” (sign me up).

Undeterred by the crippling polar vortex that's left heaps of snow lying unceremoniously at every turn.

With a gasp she felt herself falling straight down through a swirling vortex of sensation, to the very sand-bed of the stream.

He had now come to the verge of the whirlpool of destruction, and, in a frenzied moment, he threw himself into the awful vortex!

"She dies in a flurry," said Tom, casting his eyes at the little vortex into which the boat was then entering.

It was a narrow, sharp rock, that jutted out about two feet from the bank, quite close to the vortex of the whirlpool.

Up from the horizon they would mount, forming a vortex overhead, soundless within the silence of the ether.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vortex, such as: whirlpool, eddy, waterspout, gyre, and whirlwind.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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