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wrinkle

noun as in crinkle, fold

verb as in crinkle, fold

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It’s just one of the wrinkles of using a technology that is only as good as the data fed into it.

From Fortune

It’s often observed that US presidents seem to age faster during their years in office, their newly grey hairs and deepened wrinkles serving as outward manifestations of the stress and pressure that comes with calling the nation’s shots.

From Quartz

KPBS added another wrinkle Thursday when it reported that redactions in the audit could be easily removed by copying and pasting the text into another document.

To eliminate any wrinkles, grab an iron and work out any creases on the highest setting—it’s not a light fabric so it can take a few passes.

Your goal was to make a numerical expression that equals 24, using each of four given numbers once, along with parentheses, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and exponentiation — that last one being a fun wrinkle.

It's a special place that focuses closely on vegetables, definitely a new wrinkle for Houston.

But there is an ugly underbelly to this otherwise charming story and it is not exactly a new wrinkle either.

A more recent wrinkle is the doctor who prescribes from his own office, cutting out the middleman (read: pharmacist).

A fabulous new book, The Siege: 68 Hours inside the Taj Hotel, by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, adds a new wrinkle.

This could signify a lot of things: a renewed drive by labor, or some wrinkle in the tax code that I'm not aware of.

They surround themselves with the atmosphere of the demi-monde and forget that a wrinkle is as fatal as a chaperon.

The keenest eye at that time could have detected no wrinkle on Lucy's lovely girlish face.

That is a philanthropic wrinkle for chapel keepers and other compounders of business and piety which we commend to special notice.

His ears were large, thin towards the end, and bound up with a sort of wrinkle at the origin.

I plunged ahead, as I saw Kramer take a breath and wrinkle his brow, about to make his pitch.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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