kinking

present participle of kink

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Verb
  • Made from carbon steel with a durable nonstick coating, these pans are built to resist warping and make cleanup easy.
    Nora Colomer may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This is the most spectacular form of gravitational lensing in which the gravity of a foreground object — in this case a massive elliptical galaxy — is warping space.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dense dust lanes can be seen coiling around Andromeda's glowing galactic center, which is thought to house a supermassive black hole 140 million times more massive than our sun.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Subaru’s rural test site didn’t lend itself to the stop and go city driving where hybrids shine, but the Crosstrek’s extra power was apparent on twisting mountain roads.
    Mark Phelan, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • When the sprouts are 5 to 6 inches long, remove the slips by twisting them off the potato or cutting the potato into sections between each sprout.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On the entwining legacies of climate change and family history in California.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To prevent it from shifting, use a rug pad or corner grippers that secure it in place and stop the corners from curling.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Guimaraes had got Newcastle motoring, curling in a long-range shot after 58 minutes.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One of them skimmed past Joonas Korpisalo after deflecting off Tanner Jeannot.
    Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Nonprofit watchdog group Human Rights Watch and fellow comedians like David Cross and Marc Maron, however, are saying otherwise, accusing the festival of deflecting from the country's human rights violations and slamming their peers for their involvement.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ironically, though, this comes as rumors of a possible feud between them have been swirling.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the wake of an $8 billion merger between Paramount Global and Skydance, which closed in early August, rumors began swirling that Weiss was being courted to take over CBS News.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The video shows the Nissan at points pulling alongside the Tahoe and veering into an oncoming lane, with the GMC close behind.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Austin Abrams, who stole scenes as an unhoused drug addict in Cregger’s hit Weapons this past summer, is leading the feature, which is veering away from the previous adaptations and is meant to be a love letter to the original Capcom video games while using brand new characters.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Kinking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kinking. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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