as in pulled
to draw out by force or with effort
you'll never tear that secret out of me
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for torn (out)
Verb
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Then Jandiroba pulled guard in the final minute, allowing Dern to end the fight on top and win.—
Brett Appley,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025 -
Think bright and bold colors pulled from Lamborghini’s custom shades.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In the lab, the team pried the soldiers’ teeth open.—
Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
24 Oct. 2025
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Here, beauty becomes literal violence as her mouth is pried open, and nourishment becomes punishment.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Climatologists now know that volcanic dust was beginning to fall out of the atmosphere at that point, but marine sediments, tree rings, and other evidence extracted from archives of nature suggest that Arctic temperatures had not recovered.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Emergency responders extracted him from the vehicle and transported him to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth, where he was pronounced dead.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Sarah’s addiction uprooted their lives.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Gaza population of more than 2 million has been repeatedly uprooted throughout the war, with most residents now squeezed into tent encampments in the southern part of the territory, near the border with Egypt.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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On Friday, he was yanked after only one snap.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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It was yanked off the market and plopped back on.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Torn (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torn%20%28out%29. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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