crease
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An interventional radiology team begins by making a small incision in the crease of the leg.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Apple employed both software and hardware techniques to camouflage the crease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Cupertino-based company said it had reduced the visible crease in the middle of the screen -- one of the main criticisms leveled at foldables.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Like a stubborn batsman, the chancellor is going to stay at the crease, giving little away, in his case, about next month's Budget.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Behind me the clerk wraps up my blouses, unhurried, making a neat crease in the brown paper.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
September carrots can look almost too virtuous at the farmers market: sturdy bunches, feathery green tops, dirt in the creases.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Around her, students scribble notes and sketch corrections into their drawings: Watch the creases as the model walks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Netscher has meticulously rendered the garment’s luscious materiality—its fall, folds, creases and bunchings—yet transcended mere description to give us a shimmering vision of white and gray highlighted by splashes of red.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
Dr Hussain says that, by targeting the dynamic wrinkles – the temporary creases we create when we make a facial expression – static lines are reduced in the long run.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
There were rips and creases on the jacket, but it was nothing a bit of tape couldn’t fix.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood in his final days, a loose retelling of a 500-year-old ballad, and seems to have ancient dirt creased into his wrinkles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
In fact a laundry list of laundry terms could apply: folded, pressed, softened, agitated, pleated, creased, puckered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
His blue patterned shirt creased around the knuckle of his thumb.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Khalil’s tired eyes creased at the corners, and a smile spread slowly across his face.
From Slate ● May 2, 2025
They rejoined Mrs. Olinski at her table, and waited until the creased V between her eyes smoothed out and disappeared altogether.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
He prefers reading newspapers over screens, still creasing the pages into a subway fold like he was taught as a child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
"We've calmed down," Amfo confirmed, creasing with laughter.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
At this point, both the kids are born, Jimmy and Rosie, and they're at the door, just creasing themselves with laughter.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
The 43-year-old looks back at that scar, a smile creasing his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
Usually on such important visits, so it was said, the nose of every patient had to be in line with the center creasing of the top sheet.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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