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as in cramp
a painful sudden tightening of a muscle
got a kink in my neck from lying in that awkward position for too long
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as in trick
an odd or peculiar habit
the boss's fondness for nicknames is one of those kinks that staffers just have to put up with
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as in whim
a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
whenever he got a kink in his head, he'd drop whatever he was doing to pursue this latest obsession
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as in to loop
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Recent Examples of kink
Clint Davis, People.com, 25 May 2025
Practitioners are adamant that enthusiastic consent is central to kink.
—Liam McBain, NPR, 16 May 2025
Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 12 July 2025
There are a lot of moving parts at PVH, which is taking back its North American wholesale licenses from G-III Apparel Group, working out the kinks in Calvin Klein’s new global product kitchen, sharpening its inventory approach, and working to sync up product innovation with big-time marketing.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
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Noun
The secret that keeps these garden hoses from kinking sits at each end.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 25 May 2025
Practitioners are adamant that enthusiastic consent is central to kink.
—Liam McBain, NPR, 16 May 2025
Verb
There’s a reason for that: Fire hose again, coupled with intermittent kinks and leaks.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 12 July 2025
There are a lot of moving parts at PVH, which is taking back its North American wholesale licenses from G-III Apparel Group, working out the kinks in Calvin Klein’s new global product kitchen, sharpening its inventory approach, and working to sync up product innovation with big-time marketing.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kink
Noun
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Symptoms can include heavy sweating, muscle cramps, dizziness, and nausea.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 July 2025
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India’s Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill, both of whom are elite athletes accustomed to the subcontinent’s harsh heat index, suffered debilitating cramps during the ICC World Cup semi-final against New Zealand, with Gill forced to retire for several innings.—
Vitas Carosella,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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From fashion tips and tricks to tween and teen hair and nails, our back-to-school style guide has a little bit of everything.—
Kimberly Zapata,
Parents,
29 July 2025
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So begins a scrappy come-up story, about older dogs learning new tricks to revitalize a dying print industry.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
28 July 2025
Noun
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No business can operate successfully in a system where the president's personal whims determine regulatory outcomes and government access.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 July 2025
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Let victims testify: the parents who watched their kids regress academically, the business owners bankrupted by whims, the families torn apart by isolation.—
Houman Hemmati,
Oc Register,
20 July 2025
Verb
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The route through the area that will be closed will loop along the Cumberland River and extend through neighborhoods like Rolling Mill Hill and the Gulch.—
Austin Hornbostel,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 July 2025
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There was just one problem: Top House Republicans weren’t looped in.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
17 July 2025
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Initially, Sammy appears to be trying her best to keep it together—sitting bolt upright, eyes wide, in an uncannily human pose that has had viewers in stitches of their own.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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The same stitch is still used to create a Birkin bag, which takes between 18 and 24 hours to make, and is sewn entirely by hand by a single artisan who has undergone years of training before being entrusted with the job.—
Laia Farran Graves,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
Noun
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The Small-Cap Parallel Even in developed markets, small-cap stocks share many of the same characteristics as emerging economies.—
Jay Mehta,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Improbably, Netanyahu seems to have forgotten the most critical characteristic of the Jewish faith: the sanctity of life.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Aug. 2025
Verb
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As Johnson shuffled right to keep engaging Smith, Lions linebacker Grant Stuard twisted back to the inside on a blitz up the middle.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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It’s planted and level on twisting country roads and amenable to crowded parking lots.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Her signature ultra-thin, arched eyebrows, a style trait belonging to her renowned ’90s aesthetic, were kept intact, while her lips glowed as if they’d been coated in a thin layer of chapstick.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
29 July 2025
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Along those same lines, calling specific traits of genes good, could also cause people to look at other people who don’t have those genes in a lesser light.—
Sonia Thompson,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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“Kink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kink. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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