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

work/iron out the kinks

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  • The Browns hope so and will use the preseason to work out the kinks.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There will be plenty of time to iron out the kinks that come from those changes.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 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
  • 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 new business had a soft opening on Jan. 14 to work out the kinks, and its grand opening was Tuesday.
    Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here are five emerging uses for HTS that could transform everyday life—if engineers can work out the kinks.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 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
  • As the hosts, Silas and Jasmine are also the house’s Mom and Dad (sometimes against their housemates’ wishes), still trying to work out the kinks in their sometimes very different approaches to married life.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 27 June 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 pandemic forced healthcare providers to work at speed to iron out the kinks and implement technology into patients' healthcare routines.
    Josh Klein, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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