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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
Despite this, Audi’s been able to wring more power out of the mill.
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 June 2025
Graduation was Tuesday night; the Guardians are playing loose, easy, with nothing to lose, like a high school team wringing every last hug, laugh and memory before getting on with the summer, seniors getting on with life.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2025
Warmer oceans and air mean more evaporation and more moisture in the atmosphere, which gets wrung out in the form of more intense rain or snow.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 14 July 2025
By late afternoon, some volunteer search crews began to regroup at the fire department, looking sweaty and wrung out.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 June 2025
Graduation was Tuesday night; the Guardians are playing loose, easy, with nothing to lose, like a high school team wringing every last hug, laugh and memory before getting on with the summer, seniors getting on with life.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2025
Warmer oceans and air mean more evaporation and more moisture in the atmosphere, which gets wrung out in the form of more intense rain or snow.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 14 July 2025
By late afternoon, some volunteer search crews began to regroup at the fire department, looking sweaty and wrung out.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wring
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According to Gomez’s complaint, the woman sought to extort money from him and his law firm, Gomez Trial Attorneys, and to damage their reputations.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Correia was convicted in 2021 of 21 counts for defrauding investors in a smartphone app, extorting money from marijuana companies, and lying to the IRS.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
8 Aug. 2025
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This month, trade in your old belt and earn a $20 credit toward a new one at Clayton & Crume, a handcrafted leather belt and accessories store in Kentucky.—
Ray Padilla,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
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Mason Miller, the marquee acquisition at last week’s trade deadline, mixed a two-out walk among his three strikeouts in the bottom of the ninth to earn his first save with the Padres.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 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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To squeeze all this into exactly 100 days between Wrexham staging a promotion party after last season had ended and Tuesday’s cup tie against Hull is impressive.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Ewers was impressive finding A.J. Henning on one throw and squeezed a pass into a tight window to running back Ollie Gordon II.—
David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Aug. 2025
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Social media posts obtained by the AP that day showed Vance kayaking on the river, which feeds into Ohio's Caesar Creek Lake.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The group’s pamphlets didn’t present the gaining of political rights as a moral good in and of itself, but rather as a means to obtain greater security, resources, and influence.—
Time,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Pieces from Stock are often plucked by stylists for celebrity editorials for Vanity Fair, Esquire and GQ.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
6 Aug. 2025
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Unlike many popular artists, she was never classically trained or in any other bands, nor was she plucked from obscurity to perform assembly-line creations.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
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In a work as captivated with pastoral landscapes as the haunting glow of a tube TV, Vermette extracts possibility from every shot, down to crossfading that recalls the expressiveness of silent cinema.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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Running a raw-level recovery tool to scan the entire disk and extract the PST file.—
Chongwei Chen,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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In addition to these billions, the Trump Administration on July 22 also wrested from Japan a commitment to invest more than $550 billion in the United States.—
Jane Swift,
Fortune,
6 Aug. 2025
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Do Democrats want to wrest back their old control of the news cycle, their ability to surf the culture?—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Wring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wring. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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