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Recent Examples of corrugate
Many companies offer heavy-duty cardboard, which is usually corrugated or extra thick to hold up better to drops or heavy items that may bend or warp thinner boxes.
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Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
Photographs and videos from the school Saturday showed the windows and corrugated roofs of the dormitories blackened with soot.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
Pictures Sebuuma and another refugee sent to Reuters from the camp showed holes punched in the walls of homes made of corrugated iron.
—NBC News, 28 Apr. 2020
Since 1885 residents of Bury, a market town of 190,000 people on Manchester’s northern fringe, have gathered at this lump of red brick and corrugated iron to watch their local team.
—The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
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Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
Photographs and videos from the school Saturday showed the windows and corrugated roofs of the dormitories blackened with soot.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
Pictures Sebuuma and another refugee sent to Reuters from the camp showed holes punched in the walls of homes made of corrugated iron.
—NBC News, 28 Apr. 2020
Since 1885 residents of Bury, a market town of 190,000 people on Manchester’s northern fringe, have gathered at this lump of red brick and corrugated iron to watch their local team.
—The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
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Find it on Amazon Sleep Without Damaging Your Hair Using Kitsch Satin Hair Scrunchies Salons also have the best hair ties, like these satin Kitsch scrunchies, which won’t crease or break your hair.Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
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Designed to smooth onto eyelids without creasing or settling into fine lines and wrinkles, the shadow has dual functionality—much like its namesake mystical creature.Jenny Berg, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2024
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Undulating forms press outward toward the edges and then fold back in on themselves, like ocean waves or a flower’s petals.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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By the time Hitsville had folded, the church had become a multi-tentacled house of God, raking in millions from a theology school, TV network, a college, daycare center, and other ancillary businesses.David Browne, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
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Once filled, fold the calzone and crimp the edges together.Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
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People who delay buying a home have fewer years to grow their assets, which can in turn crimp their ability to build a nest egg for their later years.Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2024
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Keep in Mind The edges puckered a little after going through the wash.Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2024
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Sebastian Stan calls out journalist who refers to his new character with disfigurement as a 'beast' But as Donny's ego grows, so does his waistline, his bald spot, and his exaggerated way of talking, his lips puckering in direct correlation to his spiraling egomania.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2024
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His smile never fades, his suit never wrinkles, his eyes always beam down with positivity on hundreds of marketplace visitors every year.Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2024
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And one was a Dianne von Furstenberg jumpsuit that doesn't wrinkle and a Norma Kamali mini dress that also doesn't wrinkle.CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2024
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Fabric draping and pleating was used to create a sheer effect on the garment’s bodice.Julia Teti, WWD, 4 Dec. 2024
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The late designer started to experiment with pleating in the late 1980s after an exhibition of his work at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 19 Nov. 2024
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The first bullet sent Thompson, 50, crumpling to the sidewalk.Ellen Moynihan, Twin Cities, 8 Dec. 2024
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The attack stripped the facades from some nearby buildings and crumpled cars.ABBY SEWELL AND BASSEM MROUE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Corrugate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corrugate. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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