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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
Gently squeeze the pillows to remove the water, but do not wring them.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 17 Feb. 2026
Do not twist or wring the material.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 5 Feb. 2026
When cool enough to handle, wrap the spinach in a kitchen towel or paper towels and wring out all the water.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026
There is a premonitory moment, too, in this book that wrings so much drama from so many backdoor meetings.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 17 Feb. 2026
Do not twist or wring the material.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 5 Feb. 2026
When cool enough to handle, wrap the spinach in a kitchen towel or paper towels and wring out all the water.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026
There is a premonitory moment, too, in this book that wrings so much drama from so many backdoor meetings.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wring
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Police say 18th Street members also are known to extort both licensed and unlicensed vendors in the area.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Gonzales has denied the affair with the aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, and claims he's being extorted by her husband.—
Caroline Linton,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Each Derby candidate has only one or two chances remaining to earn one of the 20 stalls in the oversized starting gate at Churchill Downs.—
Jay Posner,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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The victory earned back-to-back state titles for Decatur.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Mar. 2026
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This delicate top looks like it was pulled straight from Reformation or Doen’s website.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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The blue Ford quickly comes to a full stop and Martinez is pulled from the vehicle and handcuffed by multiple officers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Mar. 2026
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This technical pivot would allow nations to squeeze every profitable drop from their own land with surgical precision, bypassing the geopolitical chaos of distant chokepoints and securing a future defined by Decentralized Techno-Resource Sovereignty.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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When residents are this squeezed, City Hall’s predictable response has been to charge us more.—
Bradley Schnell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Vader tracked the restaurant’s closing auction in hopes of obtaining one of the famous gold horse statues guarding its entrance.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Mar. 2026
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Reportedly designed by New York designer Peter Marino, the planes include private bedroom suites with queen-size beds, bathrooms with stand-up showers and electric bidets, and a lounge with a wet bar and wine chiller, according to images obtained by NBC.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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But if Rick later plucks something from behind that rock at the fire, are others going to start poking around looking for stuff?—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Mar. 2026
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The European flax bedding comes embellished with a crocheted seam just above the ruffled edge and looks like it was plucked right out of a Victorian trousseau.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
28 Feb. 2026
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Training the controllers The controllers of the humanoid robot were trained on dynamic parkour motions extracted from the dataset, using reinforcement learning.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Mar. 2026
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The nations that survive will be those that own the technology to extract and move energy with extreme efficiency; thereby, replacing massive, vulnerable, and centralized global hubs with resilient, decentralized domestic resources.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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In 2012, Manbij became one of the first Syrian cities to wrest itself from the tyranny of the dictator Bashar al-Assad.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Fast forward to 2025 when the total outlays are now north of $7 trillion a year, more than a 360% increase in national spending in the 30 years since term limits were wrested from the American public.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Wring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wring. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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