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as in to pry
to draw out by force or with effort
the boy wrested the book out of his sister's hands
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as in to grab
to separate or remove by forceful pulling
wrested open the stuck door of the cabinet
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Recent Examples of wrest
Soto's addition is the Mets' most aggressive move yet to wrest the Big Apple spotlight away from the Yankees.
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David K. Li, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
For the same reasons and the same strategies, China seems intent on wresting that title away from the U.S.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Horowitz cultivates these credos in his clients, yet his usual practice is to wrest books from the grip of one, bestow them into the hands of another, then wrest them back for a third.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
That, on paper, could wrest time from Hernández, who also was acquired to hit lefties but has struggled to do so for much of this season.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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David K. Li, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
For the same reasons and the same strategies, China seems intent on wresting that title away from the U.S.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Horowitz cultivates these credos in his clients, yet his usual practice is to wrest books from the grip of one, bestow them into the hands of another, then wrest them back for a third.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
That, on paper, could wrest time from Hernández, who also was acquired to hit lefties but has struggled to do so for much of this season.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrest
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Chiquita Brands said that it had been extorted by the paramilitary group and forced to make payments to protect its Colombian employees.—
Maria Abi-Habib,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Jackson, whose prodigious feats as a Los Angeles Raiders running back and a Major League outfielder in the late 1980s and early ‘90s put him in the conversation as the best athlete, alleged that Thomas Lee Anderson and Erica M. Anderson harassed and tried to extort $20 million from him.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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After a series of headline-making performances — including at Coachella and Gov Ball 2024 — the 14-track project earned a new peak of No. 2 on the Billboard 200.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
17 Jan. 2025
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Fastenal earned 46 cents per share on revenue of $1.82 billion, while analysts polled by FactSet were expecting 48 cents per share on $1.84 billion in revenue.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2023
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The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.—
Kelly Allen,
House Beautiful,
10 Feb. 2023
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In the hills of the Palisades, near the Temescal Ridge Trail, Alex Emerick, 34, his younger sister, Rainier, and their parents grabbed garden hoses at their home of 33 years.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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Junior forward Lawrence Sallis also grabbed 13 rebounds for the Royals.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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Miners work to extract coltan at a mine, near Rubaya, in DR Congo's North Kivu region, on April 12, 2023.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2025
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That leaves the other two ways of extracting equity as reasonable options.—
Nerdwallet,
Twin Cities,
27 Jan. 2025
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Jair Bolsonaro’s Stay-Out-of-Jail Card: The former Brazilian president, squeezed by criminal investigations, is looking to Trump, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to shift his nation’s politics — and maybe keep him a free man.—
Ruth Maclean,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Use a fire extinguisher by pulling the pin, aiming at the base of the fire, squeezing the lever slowly and sweeping the nozzle side to side For a grease fire, try to cover the flames with a lid or pan to snuff them out.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
23 Jan. 2025
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Further details about the investigation were not included in the documents obtained by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2025
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Tribe President Anthony Reider said the executive committee and leadership council voted to remove the ban in a Tuesday letter obtained by the local newspaper, the Argus Leader.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
17 Jan. 2025
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Electrons gently tug on protons in the lattice, drawing them inward to create an excess of positive charge.—
Charlie Wood,
WIRED,
12 Jan. 2025
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There’s an image of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was arrested in 2022 for not wearing her hijab to the Iranian morality police’s liking and died in custody under suspicious circumstances, tugging on the Grand Ayatollah’s beard with her hair free-flowing.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacramento Bee,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Wrest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrest. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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