maelstroms

noun

plural of maelstrom
as in vortices
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 maelstroms The world is vast and people’s minds are just these amazing maelstroms, for good or for ill. — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 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
Noun
  • Federal forecasters warned that the former hurricane and its warm, humid gusts could create unstable air and general storm cells that would become vortexes.
    — Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026
  • In Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, smaller eddies and vortices near the perimeter feed the giant maelstrom in the center.
    — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of vortices

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“Maelstroms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maelstroms. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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