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wrinkle

[ring-kuhl] / ˈrɪŋ kəl /




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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

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

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

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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