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as in pulls
to move by or as if by a forceful rotation
I'm so mad I could wring your neck
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as in pries
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 Synonyms for wrings
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The Wool Coat An investment that earns its price-per-wear, a black wool coat lends instant sophistication to any look.—
Minty Mellon,
Vogue,
17 Oct. 2025 -
First place earns an extra eight points, second place earns an extra seven, and so on until the driver who finishes eighth receives a single point.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Below, see more of the best, fresh-off-the-runway pulls from the 2025 Academy Museum Gala.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2025
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Period atmosphere gets a boost from the soundtrack, which pulls together tracks from DJ Luck & MC Neat, The Midnight, Louise Browne and composer Gregory Dombrowski, who works out of Los Angeles.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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The show’s biggest laugh may come when Testa pries open Costanzo’s mouth and pronounces just how many performances of Norma Galas has left.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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And now, one such creation slithers, squeezes, and twists through the narrowest corners.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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The surgeon withdraws the balloon and then squeezes the implant in through a sterile funnel before closing the incision.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
15 Oct. 2025
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The dog jumps up and plucks the burger from her—a move that left viewers stunned and amused by the canine's flawless execution.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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There may be even greater reasons to put an ad that plucks the heartstrings in front of a broader crowd.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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The technology that extracts from Blackness—from aesthetics to labor to land—is now feared for its power.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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On the plus side, Silksong never extracts the ultimate punishment by sending you all the way back to the start of the game.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
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All of this exacts a fuzzy psychological toll.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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One game for the division (and the division’s one playoff spot)… And Seattle exacts revenge for 2019.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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On Earth, the result is the changing ocean tides as our moon tugs at the water.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Graff tugs the reader from the earliest experiments in radiation to the young pilots who made an ashy hole of Nagasaki.—
Book Marks
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Wrings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrings. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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