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adjective

as in twisted

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verb

past tense of swirl
1
as in stirred
to cause (as a liquid) to move about in a circle especially repeatedly kept swirling her lemonade until the ice had melted and it was completely watered down

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2
as in twirled
to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis swirled her skirts as she danced the tango

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Recent Examples of swirled
Verb
Speculation has swirled in recent weeks over whether Saudi Arabia would go forward with the event, given high-profile attacks on the Riyadh airport. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026 When Big Bear’s celebrity eagle died in August, questions swirled about what had gone wrong. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Their ordinary matter — their gas and dust — swirled about and got clumped up. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026 The hurricane's center swirled parallel to the coast, closing in on the Puerto Vallarta area, where its most damaging winds and rain were expected to hit around midnight and continue through Monday morning. — ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026 Tweets about Cunningham, thinkpieces, and rebuttals have all swirled into an endless mass of controversy — one dominated by derogatory rhetoric, threats, and anti-trans memes. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026 East of the center, moisture being swirled northward was still posing a flood risk. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2026 Speculation about what would become of CNN swirled following the news of the media megamerger, which puts WBD’s CNN and Paramount’s CBS News under the same roof. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026 Once the sales process began, rumors swirled around the making and quality of Artificial. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swirled
  1. twisted
  2. stirred
  3. twirled
  4. warped
  5. spun
  6. entwined
  7. turned
  8. rounded
Adjective
  • Hutch seemed unhurt beyond a twisted knee, but Ed, stripped naked, was a mass of small cuts and bright greening bruises that made an awful background for ridges of clotted blood.
    — Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Season 2 sees Boehm (Thompson) and Trafford (Wilson) chasing down another twisted mystery.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of twisted
Verb
  • The DeepSeek shock in early 2025 triggered another freakout as the Chinese AI model stirred doubts about the necessity of all that capex.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier this year, Yu Hao, the founder and CEO of leading robot-vacuum-maker Dreame, made headlines and stirred controversy with his goal of building it into the world’s first $100 trillion company.
    — Derek Rose, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of stirred
Verb
  • Wellsley Farms Maple Pecan Danish A delightfully sweet breakfast treat or a post-dinner dessert, these maple pecan danishes are flaky pastries twirled with maple and pecans.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The Bombers took care of the BoSox in last year’s Wild Card when Cam Schlittler twirled eight scoreless innings and struck out 12 against his hometown team in a do-or-die Game 3, his postseason debut.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of twirled
Adjective
  • Where Jacob’s process worked with the natural spontaneity (and trial and error) of human handiwork and fabric, AI probably would have just given the birds a warped beak or extra foot.
    — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The following adventure is a wild blend of time travel, crime, and a warped version of reality.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of warped
Verb
  • The car spun counter-clockwise and overturned, stopping on its roof.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Trouble for Modified Gravity Several independent experts buy the tale spun by Keim and his colleagues.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of spun
Adjective
  • From John Madden, who directed the seven-time Oscar winner Shakespeare in Love, the pic stars Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans as strangers whose lives become entwined when both are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Kiton A far cry from its prep-school cousins, Kiton’s take on the traditional cable knit blows up the proportions with more loosely entwined cords, making a statement with negative space—and a gutsy chartreuse color.
    — Jon Roth, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of entwined
Verb
  • The amateur investigators turned the sample over to university police.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The theater quickly turned into a West Coast powerhouse, producing trailblazing work, including the plays of Brecht, Beckett and Pinter.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of turned
Adjective
  • Custom hooks, two-tone rounded laces and a co-branded metallic buckle secure the upper of the fresh shoe style.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Abxylute The controller bodies both have a rounded rectangular shape.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of rounded

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“Swirled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swirled. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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