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corrugate

[kawr-uh-geyt, kor-, kawr-uh-git, -geyt, kor-] / ˈkɔr əˌgeɪt, ˈkɒr-, ˈkɔr ə gɪt, -ˌgeɪt, ˈkɒr- /






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The pulp and paper mill makes about 1,800 tons of unbleached paper and corrugate medium each day.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2023

Perhaps, in the course of breaking down a cardboard box, you’ve stopped to look at an individual panel of corrugate and noticed its resemblance to a deli sandwich.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2022

A smartphone manufacturer might want 5,000 24-inch boxes with a light grade of corrugate strength.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2022

The outer shipping box is 100% recyclable cardboard corrugate.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2020

The corrugate shapes of old harrowtroughs still faintly visible.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

On the sands of Abersoch in Gwynedd, Beach Hut 7 is a timber and corrugated iron cabin, one of only 17 on the right-hand side of the stretch of coast.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

The corrugated steel walls are filled with dense foam.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2026

Filled with my furniture, with paintings and posters leaning against its corrugated metal walls, it looked like the house in microcosm, as if I had moved, under duress, to a shipping container.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 11, 2026

Insulation from the global natural-gas shock benefits not just household bill payers but also manufacturers of everything from steel and plastics to fertilizer and corrugated boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 8, 2026

We westbound folk made do with poorly patched corrugated metal that leaked rainwater the color of old blood.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

It showed both the remaining footage in the current order and the processing speed of the corrugating machine.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2022

He invested in kraft vats, and when corrugating technology reached in America, he invested in that too, allowing him to produce bigger, stronger boxes capable of carrying heavier cargo, like sugar and coffee beans.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2022

Beside me sat a man whose anxiety radiated from him in waves, like heat corrugating the air.

From New York Times Mar. 31, 2021

Another kind of wave known as a bending wave is caused by a moon that orbits at an angle inclined to the ring plane, warping or corrugating the ring's edge.

From Time Magazine Archive

From this point the gradually arising money power penetrated like corrugating acid into the traditional modes of rural existence founded on natural economy.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels




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