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Like the original, it features a roaring V-12 engine, angular wedgelike styling, triangular side air intakes, and a louvered rear window.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

“An act? No. If anybody is acting, it’s us. She’s as real as”—he looked around; he picked up the tiny, wedgelike skull of Barney, a 60-million-year-old Paleocene rodent, and held it up—“as real as Barney.”

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by Zerbe, James Slough

His brows knit together into a wedgelike furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip.

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar

He was as tough as that lumberman's implement and wedgelike, too, in his power of disrupting the dividing elements which, but for him, might have hung together in harmony.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville