wrinkle
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Held in a butter-yellow hangar structure on a serene hill, the show embraced each wrinkle in an outfit as “a powerful current.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
One wrinkle for workers: Average hourly pay was up 3.1% year-over-year, showing that wages continue to struggle to keep pace with inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
And in the modern technological era, artificial-intelligence models add a new wrinkle to corporate conventions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 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
Meanwhile, Penelope kept smoothing the skirt of her new dress and adjusting it beneath her so that it might not wrinkle overmuch during the journey.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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"I visited him after seeing his photo in a Facebook post. The wrinkles on his face really fascinated me. His face was unique."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Their faces are vivid, and haunting, whether bearing signs of greying hair and wrinkles, or the long eyelashes and chubby cheeks of a child.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
And while the accounts aren’t new, this is a good time of year to delve into HSA rules and wrinkles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
Because I can already see the wrinkles and gray hairs begin to fade away.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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A wrinkled Northern elephant seal named Violet slid out of a crate and onto San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach on a muggy morning in late August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Elsewhere, steel structures appear variously deflated, vacuum-sealed, flopped, melted and wrinkled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
These small, wrinkled rodents can live for decades, rarely develop cancer, and seem unusually protected from many of the diseases that normally arrive with age.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 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
She had peered over her shoulder, her face as wrinkled as last year’s potatoes, then held something up before she shoved it deep into the thatch.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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“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
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
I could see the sweat already wrinkling the pamphlet I’d just given her.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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