wrinkle
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A huge wrinkle is that larger cities and metro areas benefit from economies of scale that help insulate them: they can afford dedicated OT security staff and redundant control systems.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
The imaginary collaboration also contains a historical wrinkle: Washington never actually lived in the White House.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Though they probably will have only four starting spots to fill in the postseason — and Yamamoto, Skubal, Snell and Glasnow can be penciled in when healthy — Ohtani’s build-up adds an interesting wrinkle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Here’s where my own reporting adds a wrinkle to Sobel’s economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Why did Eevie have to wrinkle her dumb nose like that?
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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But this was a preseason game, a time to work out the many wrinkles, and the Chargers have more than three weeks before they open the regular season at home against Arizona.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
At their sharply curved tips, the wrinkles altered the local electrical energy.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
By comparing highly curved wrinkles with nearby areas of flat graphene, the researchers were able to separate the electrical effects produced by curvature from other possible influences.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
After years battling her forehead wrinkles with Botox injections, Stephanie Abend realized something surprising: She wanted some of them back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Pressure ridges reared up like wrinkles in a huge white blanket.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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The soap-bubble fantasy of Ms. Lemann’s New Orleans rather calls to mind the Hundred Acre Wood, if Christopher Robin were a gentle, dissipated loafer in a wrinkled seersucker suit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
To Martindale, the wrinkled surface looked exactly like fossilized microbial mats.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026
About 30 minutes later, the White House posted the same image on the platform, but altered to show Armstrong sobbing, her mouth open, forehead wrinkled, and tears streaming down her face.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
A wrinkled manila folder with her husband’s birth certificate and tax returns was on Mercedes’ lap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
He had heft to him: large hands, a belly, broad in the shoulder and jaw and wrinkled neck.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Those affected often develop early skin wrinkling, loss of skin elasticity, reduced body fat, hair loss, hardened arteries, and insulin resistance.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
But when I met him on the banks of the River Coln just outside Fairford, he was wrinkling his nose.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
His wrinkling lips were as expressive as many actors’ eyes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
Those eyebrows start to rise again, the nose wrinkling: Brandi joy face is on its way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
I could see the sweat already wrinkling the pamphlet I’d just given her.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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