Why do duvet covers eat all the clothes in the dry-tumbler? Question from an actual 5 years old

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Hi!
My daughter has been pondering on something mysterious and the adults around her hasn´t provided any satisfactory answers at all. So she wanted me to ask the internet.

When we dry fabrics in the dry-tumbler the duvet cover more often than not swallows parts of the accompanying clothes and sheets, forcing us to turn it inside out to get to them.
“It´s just going round, round and the water goes out so why does it eat everything?

(My suggestion of dry-tumbler gnomes was quickly and rudely rejected)

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I think of it like when a bird gets trapped in your house. Sometimes, when a bird is randomly flying around, it can end up flying in an open front door. But then it is far less likely that by randomly flying around the bird will manage to take the very specific route required to escape.

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