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as in to pry
to draw out by force or with effort
willing to use torture if necessary in order to wring the information out of the terrorist
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Recent Examples of wring
Truckers make money by wringing as many hours as possible out of trucks.
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Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
If American leaders continue to wring their hands over China’s ascendancy instead of taking these crucial steps, Washington’s strategic advantage could quickly erode.
—Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
That final act also sets the scene for an emotional catharsis of sorts that attempts to wring tears out of the audience, with an aggressive assist from Alan Silvestri’s hard-working score.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
Another activist, Robby Starbuck, wrung concessions from corporations like Walmart and Target through pressure campaigns on social media.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
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Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
If American leaders continue to wring their hands over China’s ascendancy instead of taking these crucial steps, Washington’s strategic advantage could quickly erode.
—Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
That final act also sets the scene for an emotional catharsis of sorts that attempts to wring tears out of the audience, with an aggressive assist from Alan Silvestri’s hard-working score.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
Another activist, Robby Starbuck, wrung concessions from corporations like Walmart and Target through pressure campaigns on social media.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wring
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Their father was being extorted in Honduras, and their mother had been attacked.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Mar. 2025
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The relationships, Canter said, make Ernst vulnerable to being extorted if people learned of them and could give someone undue influence over her.—
Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
4 Mar. 2025
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The set blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 219,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week (March 7-13), according to Luminate — the biggest weekly sum for an album by a woman this year.—
Xander Zellner,
Billboard,
18 Mar. 2025
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North Carolina snuck into the men’s draw as the final team chosen, a notable decision given that a) UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham is chair of the selection committee, and b) Cunningham earned a $68,000 bonus for the Tar Heels’ selection.—
Scott Soshnick,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2025
Verb
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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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Tension headaches are the most common type, and can feel like a band is squeezing your forehead, with pain extending to your scalp and neck, per the US National Library of Medicine.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
13 Mar. 2025
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Instead of mechanical rollers, this mask uses inflating and deflating mechanisms to gently squeeze around your eyes and temples, creating a rhythmic, pulse-like massage.—
Siena Gagliano,
Allure,
13 Mar. 2025
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As the May deadline approaches for Idahoans to obtain their Star Card, a new driver’s license location in Star City Hall may reduce wait times for Ada County residents.—
Ashley Fredde,
Idaho Statesman,
18 Mar. 2025
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Fox News obtained the dramatic video that shows the jets taking off towards the terrorist targets.—
Andrea Margolis,
Fox News,
18 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Juwan Johnson, a 6-foot-4 open-space threat who Payton plucked undrafted out of Penn State in 2020, is re-upping for three years with the New Orleans Saints after constant buzz over a potential Payton reunion in Denver.—
Luca Evans,
The Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2025
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Hitchcock would have loved this beyond, given the sheer technical wizardry and skill of debuting 27-year-old Irish director Ronan Corrigan, who was plucked from a Black List-style program Bekmambetov founded called Screenlifers, designed to help emerging filmmakers in the format.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2025
Verb
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After abolition, the U.S. economy found new ways to extract labor from Black people: sharecropping, prison labor, and low-wage industrial labor.—
Banseka Kayembe,
refinery29.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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His team developed a set of out-of-context reasoning tests to probe whether AI can extract implicit rules and act upon them without explicit examples.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In 2021, Gaver reportedly wrested the Elvis from Jolene.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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The article wrests the monopoly on scientific colonialism away from the West.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Wring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wring. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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