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Her comment placed her in the center of a maelstrom of criticism.maelstrom = powerful whirlpool (figuratively)
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The ship barely escaped the giant maelstrom that churned the ocean into chaos.maelstrom = powerful whirlpool
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After the announcement, a maelstrom of emotions swept through the crowd.maelstrom = powerful whirlpool (figuratively)
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whirling round the maelstrom in my mind†
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A hovercar passed overhead, blowing a maelstrom of dust and loose wood chips into her eyes. (source)maelstrom = a powerful whirlpool
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Empty and closed like my sister, genetically locked in a maelstrom of meaningless apologies. (source)maelstrom = powerful whirlpool
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And at the center of this maelstrom was the Countess Rostov's dining room with its two tables for twenty standing side by side.† (source)
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Five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of unreason and spewed up a payment.† (source)
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In the past half year, the supposedly unoccupied house had played host to a maelstrom of humanity.† (source)
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It was like a gigantic rock in the flood, creating maelstroms in the current around it.† (source)
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For a failure of imagination and in the darkness, it feels as if Werner has reached bottom, as if he has been whirling deeper all this time, like the Nautilus sucked under the maelstrom, like his father descending into the pits: a one-way dive from Zollverein past Schulpforta, past the horrors of Russia and Ukraine, past the mother and daughter in Vienna, his ambition and shame becoming one and the same, to the nadir in this basement on the rim of the continent where the apparition chants nonsense—Frau Schwartzenberger walks toward him, transforming herself as she approaches from woman to girl—her hair becomes red again, her skin smooths, a seven-year-old girl presses her face up against his† (source)
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in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts† (source)
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Now as he rounded the corner and left their sight, the camerlegno felt a maelstrom of emotions like nothing he thought possible in human experience.† (source)
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A maelstrom of noise and activity in the galley, all the electric elements blazing and the ranges like kilns.† (source)
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By the time his vision had settled, the dwarf had disappeared into a maelstrom of churning muck.† (source)
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We both grabbed the mast as the ship plunged into the maelstrom.† (source)
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