folds

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The Host is just one of a strange cast of characters to escape the loose folds of Noel Rhodes’ mind and make it on-time to the circus.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Though its smell is hardly appetizing, the cloth is surrounded by a group of women, each with her hands on the folds to knead, slap, punch and beat the cloth into shape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The famous Miura fold, developed by Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura, folds a sheet of material into parallelograms, allowing it to fold down very compactly.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

They generate the lower tone by vibrating their vocal folds, similar to the way humans create sound while singing.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

When she looked down, her hands were clutching folds of the “dirt.”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi