wrinkle
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The back-and-forth between Taylor Farms and regulators is the latest wrinkle that consumers have to navigate while they figure out what’s safe to eat right now.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The wrinkle this year is that the Americans actually won a knockout game for the first time in 24 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Everything about the discovery suggested the wrinkle structures should not exist in that setting.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Still, when game day arrived, Wright and his wife were all set to go, except for one major wrinkle: They never got the tickets.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Underneath Lovebug’s face shield, I see her crinkle together her eyebrows and wrinkle her nose.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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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
Over time, those mats developed the distinctive wrinkles preserved in the rocks.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
It stated the mask was "clinically proven to reduce wrinkles in four weeks" but the advertising watchdog said it did not provide enough evidence to support this claim.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
She smoothed out the wrinkles in her not-at-all-like-Mom blouse and gray skirt.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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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
Elsewhere, steel structures appear variously deflated, vacuum-sealed, flopped, melted and wrinkled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
To Martindale, the wrinkled surface looked exactly like fossilized microbial mats.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026
"I'm sick and I don't even have the money to buy medication," she said, empty boxes in her wrinkled hands.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Gran’s nose wrinkled as if she’d caught a whiff of Dad’s cooking.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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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
“We had to hire someone to rip out the urine-soaked flooring from the previous tenants’ cats,” Guo says, wrinkling her nose as she recalled the aroma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
For example, in Inuit culture, people often communicate with facial expressions, like raising their eyebrows for “yes” or wrinkling their nose for “no.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
“You two are animals,” says Liberty, wrinkling her nose.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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