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Recent Examples of swirl
Andrew Pasquier, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
Tradition and opulence deftly swirl within its sumptuous interior—replete with crystal chandeliers, statuary, antiques and marble galore.
—Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2025
Last week, speculation swirled online that the two, who also co-founded the publishing house X Artists’ Books, had wed.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
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Verb
In August, Steven Phillips-Horst wrote a sensation-causing report about the pharmacological party swirl among a very narrow band of rich gay men who can afford hundreds of dollars in club entrances and baggies per weekend.
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In August 2022, rumors swirled that Kody was eyeing a woman named Leah Marie Brown as his fifth and new wife.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for swirl
Verb
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Let apples stand at room temperature fat least 1 hour or up to 24 hours to macerate and release their juices, stirring occasionally.—
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Add bell peppers, poblano peppers, onion, and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt to skillet and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender and starting to char, 10 to 12 minutes.—
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Chemical reactions involving the hematite can turn the rock from red to white and produce iron rich minerals, in this case an iron phosphate called vivianite and an iron sulfide called greigite.—
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Perhaps more worrying for Browns fans has been Flacco's propensity to turn the ball over, throwing six interceptions thus far, the second most of any quarterback in football through the first four weeks.—
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That started to lower the eye-rolls.—
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Let the rolls rise in the pan at room temperature for about two hours.—
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Wole didn’t understand, still smiling, and Jean rotated in her seat, toward Sylvester.—
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Coco Bred and Pop’s Patties are new additions at the Barclays’ Brooklyn Market, a food hall with a rotating selection of local and minority-owned vendors.—
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Though the White House technically lost a lawsuit brought by the Associated Press this spring, the president was still able to spin it as a win for his base by amending the way that all wire publications were included in the routine press pool rotations.—
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Guests can spruce up a classic latte, americano or drip coffee with the housemade syrups — vanilla, caramel, mocha, honey lavender or a rotation of seasonal flavors.—
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In 1921 Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara theorized that two vortices spinning through fluid (which is exactly what tropical cyclones are) could come close enough to each other to begin orbiting a common central point.—
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The wideout caught a Colts QB Daniel Jones throw for what would have been a sensational 76-yard touchdown in the third quarter, spinning away from two tacklers.—
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With its welcoming yet offbeat eddies of piano, acoustic guitar, woodwinds, and horns, Heavy Metal was a far cry from Geese’s livewire rock.—
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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.—
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Sprinklers were twirling on little patches of lawn.—
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Almost every time there’s a close call the player comes up twirling his finger, beseeching his coach to ask for a review.—
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“Swirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swirl. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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