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He spent all that time working out data kinks because he knew they couldn’t afford errors once the product got off the ground.

There were also some kinks to work out in teaching, Weiss found.

Unlike the more familiar "kink" waves that cause entire magnetic structures to sway and can be seen in solar videos, torsional Alfvén waves create a subtle twisting motion that can only be detected spectroscopically.

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.

After an offseason focused on ironing out the kinks in his game, Johnston is finally showing why he was such a highly regarded prospect coming out of college.