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as in to crumple
to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in
crinkled the candy wrapper up and threw it away
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Recent Examples of crinkle
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
At 15-years-young, Shiloh also enjoys chasing, capturing, and carrying around her toys and crinkle balls!
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 10 July 2024
His face lit up, the eyes crinkled, the smile reached its widest, and the finger wagged at me again.
—Alok Sama, Fortune Asia, 17 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Sides include salty meets crispy crinkle fries, briny pickle chips and a cooling kale slaw, which will quickly become your best friend.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
At 15-years-young, Shiloh also enjoys chasing, capturing, and carrying around her toys and crinkle balls!
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
Philadelphia Flyers fans of a certain age are permitted to shake their heads and crinkle their noses when they’re reminded of the details.
—Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 10 July 2024
His face lit up, the eyes crinkled, the smile reached its widest, and the finger wagged at me again.
—Alok Sama, Fortune Asia, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crinkle
Noun
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Eyes dart, brows furrow, and Holliday lets slip a slight grin, before skinning that smoke wagon and firing one shot into Ringo’s forehead.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2025
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Where there once were homes and gardens was now a wide furrow of dirt, as if a giant had swiped his foot across it.—
Eduardo Medina,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The tree stands tall now, shielding multigenerational families from the sun at the edge of the same square, where bright concentric circles under rustling garlands encourage romvong circular dance.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2025
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The near silences are fulsome: A light wind rustles a pine tree, and corn husks make that unmistakable scratching sound.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Malone entered his postgame news conference minutes later, crumpled up a copy of the box score and discarded it in the nearest trash can.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
11 Apr. 2025
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Images of the scene showed the bright yellow Penske truck flipped on its side and lodged between a pole and a storefront, its cab crumpled.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Ike Barinholtz’s Sal Saperstein listens with his eyebrows up, his forehead wrinkled into a semi-permanent state of worry.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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Over millions of years, rain, flash floods, sandstorms and earthquakes have scoured and wrinkled the soft sandstone into the maze-like badlands.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Joining the Senators for their expansion season, Millen’s transition from the blue crease to the TV booth was smooth.—
Rob Rossi,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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There was hair that had to be flocked, individually, into the chin piece and the brow piece that was to reflect the same crease as Ethan’s.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Once a silent graveyard of bleached coral, the ocean floor is now crackling with life thanks in part to the use of technology developed by Mars Sustainable Solutions.—
Cat Cardenas,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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Even today, those issues are still crackling with creativity and energy.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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As Chelsea, Wood widens her eyes and slants her eyebrows up when confused, bares her teeth and scrunches her whole face in terror, and barely contains her smile when smitten.—
Ashliene McMenamy,
Allure,
8 Apr. 2025
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The fetal folds are creases along the calf’s skin that come from being scrunched inside its mother’s uterus for about 18 months.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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See this steel-case perpetual calendar model, a three-day automatic powered by the company’s 34th caliber developed in-house — but still squeaking in at less than $10,000, a fraction of what most Swiss makers command for a mechanical watch with a calendar that keeps up with leap years.—
Robin Swithinbank,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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House Bill 1277 squeaked out of the chamber with 33 votes, the minimum needed to clear the chamber; 30 representatives voted no, with some Democrats joining Republicans.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Crinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crinkle. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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