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Not to be zoned out or in a trance exactly, but to be really wrought up in it.
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New York Times, 9 June 2022
Most folk, out-take Nack, reckoned the qualm was a tale the priests wrought up to wring out our silver.
—Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
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New York Times, 9 June 2022
Most folk, out-take Nack, reckoned the qualm was a tale the priests wrought up to wring out our silver.
—Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
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“Wrought up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrought%20up. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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