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wrinkle

[ring-kuhl] / ˈrɪŋ kəl /




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Discovery merger adds a new wrinkle for news divisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

It was an intriguing prospect, partly because she’d never made a full-length LP in this vein, and contributions from critically respected post-punk New York revivalists Model/Actriz added another potentially exciting wrinkle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

I didn't even know that jeans could wrinkle.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

While the accounts aren’t new, now is an opportune time to revisit their rules and wrinkles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

These include PFAS—or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances—to repel water and stains, formaldehyde-releasing resins to resist wrinkles, biocides to control odor, silicone softeners and dyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

That gives AbbVie recurring exposure to aging consumers trying to address wrinkles and facial-volume loss — without making aesthetics the entire investment thesis.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

The creature eyeing them had the face and torso of an old, bare-chested man, complete with thinning gray hair and wrinkles etched deep into his features.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

As gray and wrinkled as the bottom of a mummy’s foot, the Cyclops’ face is wonderfully askew, like he was stepped on by someone even bigger than him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

With his high and deeply wrinkled brow and perpetually downturned mouth, Greenspan appeared morose, but he could be quite funny and was popular on the Washington social scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

A slab of sedimentary rock was covered in a wrinkled texture that looked strikingly like elephant skin.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

Marco Rossi was in the third ring, hosing down an elephant and scrubbing her wrinkled gray skin with a long-handled deck brush.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

“I think it belittles memory,” she says, wrinkling her nose in distaste at the still-standing house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

At a time when too many actors are cosmetically prohibited from raising an eyebrow or wrinkling a nose, Keaton reminds us that an expressive face is still a movie’s most valuable asset.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

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

I ran my palm over my smooth blond strands and caught myself wrinkling my nose in the exact way I’d just found obnoxious.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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