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  • noun Plural form of vortex.

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Examples

  • All told, I love this show - the P&T humor works and making fun of some woman from Sadona who acts as though she really believes in vortexes (while free associating some native-american-like BS and dancing around) is just great.

    August 2004 2004

  • All told, I love this show - the P&T humor works and making fun of some woman from Sadona who acts as though she really believes in vortexes (while free associating some native-american-like BS and dancing around) is just great.

    BS, BS everywhere, and not a drop to... 2004

  • They are perturbed by the thousands of pilgrims who come to the "vortexes" that supposedly exist in the 2.8 million-acre preserve and rearrange rocks to form "medicine wheels" of up to 200 feet in diameter.

    Wheels Of Misfortune 2008

  • Yeah, Sedona's red rocks are beautiful and there are some great hiking trails around the area, but I can do without the "vortexes" and the so-called hip factor.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2009

  • You can go to Sedona and pay lots of money to people who channel dolphins, find "vortexes" of energy, and you can even find white people who for lots of fucking money will teach you all about Native American stuff.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • You can go to Sedona and pay lots of money to people who channel dolphins, find "vortexes" of energy, and you can even find white people who for lots of fucking money will teach you all about Native American stuff.

    Tachih Nádáh 2009

  • And like all government vortexes, the failures that it precipitates requires yet more government.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf 2010

  • Certain people—psychically aware—are sensitive to vortexes.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • That leaves two places within walking distance that have magnetic vortexes with enough chops to power the crystal: the Roosevelt Hotel or Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

    Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011

  • And like all government vortexes, the failures that it precipitates requires yet more government.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf 2010

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