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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
Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2025
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
Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2024
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
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Noun
Although cotton is not always the most advisable material for travel, the gauzy crinkle texture of this top naturally disguises wrinkles.
—Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2025
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
Verb
The jacket features two-way stretch for mobility and makes minimal noise on the run—there’s no annoying swoosh-swoosh or crinkling sound with every arm swing.
—Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2024
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
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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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The stories, jagged tales of sissies, losers, and assholes, showcase a more expansive palette and are written with sharp prose that crackles with transgressive glee.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
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The book is a cautionary tale but also a celebration, and serves as a reminder that the essence of the Bangles always lay in their adroit songwriting (both in the early days and on two excellent reunion albums) and crackling live performances.—
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airmail.news,
15 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Then, scrunch mousse in, coating the hair from the roots to ends.—
Natasha Marsh,
Allure,
7 Apr. 2025
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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
Verb
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The set also squeaks back onto the Top Album Sales list, coming in at No. 50.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Overall, Karuizawa represented 17 percent of Sotheby’s auctions, while the Macallan squeaked by at 18 percent and Chinese baijiu brand Kweichow Moutai came in third with 15 percent.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Crinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crinkle. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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