as in pulled
to draw out by force or with effort
you'll never tear that secret out of me
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He was pulled from the game with one out in his second inning after throwing 36 pitches, just 17 strikes.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026 -
The Bears trailed 1-0 in the final minute of regulation, but Rian Marquardt tied the contest with 56 ticks remaining after White Bear Lake pulled its goalie.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
26 Feb. 2026
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Brooks’ legacy lives on though, but for the players themselves, there remains an indelible bond that can never be pried apart.—
Patrick Snell,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Guidry then went up to Duke and pried a plastic twist tie from his jaws.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
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Over the past decade, quantum information theory has shown that with smarter measurement strategies, more detail can be extracted from the same light.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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The deal Mondale's forces had extracted from union leaders fell apart at the rank-and-file level.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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Suddenly, in the last 48 hours before the trade deadline, the Clippers uprooted their core by trading James Harden to Cleveland and Zubac to Indiana.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
6 Feb. 2026
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Everything is uprooted when it’s implied that Kate Mara’s character Nancy dies.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2026
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Trump has since yanked his endorsement of Hurd and threatened to follow suit against any Republican who voted to repeal tariffs.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Feb. 2026
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But in late January, a cadre of federal workers yanked placards from the site’s brick walls in response to a March 2025 executive order from the White House that shunned complication.—
Adam Harris,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Torn (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torn%20%28out%29. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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