How to Use work/iron out the kinks in a Sentence

work/iron out the kinks

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  • There will be plenty of time to iron out the kinks that come from those changes.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There is enough time this year — where there wasn’t last season — to work out the kinks.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The Browns hope so and will use the preseason to work out the kinks.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • So Hill will conceivably have more time to work out the kinks in the first two weeks of the year.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The best way to get started with AI and work out the kinks in the system is with easy wins.
    Leon Gordon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But Big Tech is racing to work out the kinks and perfect its machines.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 19 July 2024
  • The ride is short, and its purpose is simply to work out the kinks before the real trip begins.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Thus, coaches spent the long weekend back in the facility looking to work out the kinks.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Some of their struggles could be attributed to rust, or a new group of players still trying to build comradery and work out the kinks.
    C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024
  • Other times, our manes were subjected to a chemical relaxer to iron out the kinks.
    Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But most people will also have to work out the kinks of their retrofit e-bike, and that will require more thinking than with brand-new e-bikes.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Netflix looks ready to be a player in live sports, with WWE giving it a weekly way to work out the kinks.
    Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Here are five emerging uses for HTS that could transform everyday life—if engineers can work out the kinks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Prepare for delays and some potential confusion while companies work out the kinks of enforcing these measures.
    Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2021
  • For two months now, India’s second-largest IT company has not been able to iron out the kinks in the country’s income tax portal.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Since signing for the club in 2019, Leao had shown glimpses of true brilliance, a diamond in the rough who just needed to iron out the kinks in his game.
    Emmet Gates, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • The iPhone 14 is less than four months old, but initial production of the iPhone 15 is already underway to work out the kinks.
    PCMAG, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Costco was hoping for a quiet launch to buy its staff time to work out the kinks, but all bets were off once customers started posting on social media about the California rolls made with real crab.
    oregonlive, 13 July 2023
  • The two planned to iron out the kinks during practice, but Cooper practiced only one of three days — Thursday — on a limited before aggravating the hip.
    cleveland, 11 Dec. 2022
  • In the meantime, researchers hope the rollout will move slowly—perhaps confined to clinical research for the time being while developers and medical experts work out the kinks.
    Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
  • System control has taken somewhat of a backseat to music control, but there are people willing to give Sonos some time (and several updates) to work out the kinks and get back to parity with S2.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 8 May 2024
  • As retailers work out the kinks of these programs to provide more personalized recommendations and show a better understanding of consumer desires, Gupta believes that there are promising results ahead.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025

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