wrings

present tense third-person singular of wring
1
as in extorts
to get (as money) by the use of force or threats that bill collector is willing to do anything to wring money out of deadbeats

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2
as in earns
to get with great difficulty after years of trying to wring a decent profit out of the business, he is finally giving up

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4
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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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