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kink

[kingk] / kɪŋk /






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Enough time for a detail-oriented TV producer to spot that Salman, Pakistan's skipper, sported a kink in his collar.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

One absentee, however, will be Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who has been ruled out with a "kink in his back", according to the Norwegian ski federation.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

If a sterile neutrino were sometimes produced instead, it would leave a recognizable distortion, or "kink," in that pattern.

From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025

The voice that sang it was profound and strong, but quavering and not quite in tune: an old oak tree with a strong trunk but with branches starting to kink and leaves to wither.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

By the late 1940s, Monod had discovered that the kink was the result of a metabolic readjustment.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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