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Like the original, it features a roaring V-12 engine, angular wedgelike styling, triangular side air intakes, and a louvered rear window.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

“An act? No. If anybody is acting, it’s us. She’s as real as”—he looked around; he picked up the tiny, wedgelike skull of Barney, a 60-million-year-old Paleocene rodent, and held it up—“as real as Barney.”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Extraction is sometimes possible by straightening the members and obtaining such a presentation as will reduce the presenting mass to its smallest and most wedgelike dimensions.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Above her head she could see the endless cuts and crosscuts, the standing spires and narrow wedgelike walls that made a labyrinthian maze.

From Tharon of Lost Valley by Johnson, Frank Tenney

He was as tough as that lumberman's implement and wedgelike, too, in his power of disrupting the dividing elements which, but for him, might have hung together in harmony.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville