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Meanings of maelstrom in inglés

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A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

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        Usage of maelstrom in inglés
        1
        Another country feeling the economic brunt of a political maelstrom is Vietnam.
        The Irish Times
        2
        They are the little things in the confused maelstrom of human endeavor.
        Adventures in the Arts / Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudevil...
        3
        Yet the document is a maelstrom of clashing and perhaps irreconcilable ideologies.
        Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
        4
        Things moved rapidly as they usually do in the maelstrom of speculation.
        What Can She Do?
        5
        Something elemental and grotesquely inhuman began to form out of the maelstrom.
        Bag of Bones
        6
        Each human being is at sea in a maelstrom of wild license.
        The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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        That is the rock, that is the quicksand, that is the maelstrom.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 / A Magazi...
        8
        He did not pause but plunged back again through the drenching maelstrom.
        Where the Sun Swings North
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        He felt as if he were in the center of a maelstrom.
        The Lair of Bones
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        How few who plunge into this maelstrom of chance ever rise again!
        The Lure of the Mask
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        The rock was wet with maelstrom mist, but the Eishundo grip held.
        Woken furies
        12
        Into this maelstrom of the Herculaneum highlife our mad ox eagerly plunged.
        Shadows in Bronze
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        The room spun in a blurry maelstrom, the naked john its center.
        Mysterious Skin
        14
        Then the signal came and the next moment he was in the maelstrom.
        The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories
        15
        Yet she rode into danger, into the heart of the maelstrom.
        Brotherhood of the Wolf
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        It hardly matters in the maelstrom of the modern Middle East.
        The Guardian
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        Maelstrom through the time
        Maelstrom across language varieties
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