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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 wrings
Her sometimes slacker, sometimes twee rock takes recurring major sevenths and wrings them for all their existential meaning.
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Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 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
Austen wrings a great deal of humor from Lady Bertram’s dopey languor.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 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
Austen wrings a great deal of humor from Lady Bertram’s dopey languor.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrings
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Our expert take The Capital One VentureOne Rewards Credit Card earns transferrable miles, which is a stand-out benefit for a no-annual-fee card.—
Jasmin Suknanan,
CNBC,
28 Mar. 2026
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Someone making a few dollars over 400% of the federal poverty level earns too much to get a subsidy now, and in some states average premium payments were due to at least triple for this group.—
Tribune News Service,
Boston Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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But in Bait — where Ahmed pulls triple duty as creator, executive producer, and star — much of Shah’s story comes from specific aspects of Ahmed’s life, making the series perhaps his most personal project to date.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
27 Mar. 2026
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But what appears to be a dream opportunity unravels as JP pulls Tyler into a violent downward spiral.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2026
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There are swooping close encounters with heavenly bodies, Lego blocks in antigravity mode and swarms of Separators, a sort of astro-anthropomorphic version of the tool that pries apart Lego bricks in real life.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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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
Verb
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The prospect of higher food prices comes as the category already squeezes many shoppers.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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It also gets compressed, which squeezes the air and puts even more pressure on it, which heats it up.—
Zoe Mintz,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
Verb
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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 first layer, called the Level-1 Trigger, or L1T, harvests 100,000 events per second, and the second layer, called the High-Level Trigger, or HLT, plucks 1,000 of those events to save for later analysis.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Both Montecillo and Monte Rosso are aged for one year in 40 percent new French oak barrels and a second year in a 2,000-liter foudre, but Soto extracts earlier in fermentation for the Montecillo and then becomes gentler through the process to keep the tannins soft.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
15 Mar. 2026
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Sharon extracts the drama from the score as Yannick Nézét-Séguin conducts it; Nézét-Séguin aligns his interpretation with Sharon’s theatrical rhythms, and both have in Davidson and Spyres a pair of singer-actors willing to delve as well as deliver.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Shrinking lake ice exacts its price Depending on how much greenhouse gases warm the planet in the coming years, the average lake could lose up to 10 to 28 days of ice cover by the end of the century, says Sapna Sharma, a global change biologist at York University in Canada.—
Berly McCoy,
NPR,
2 Mar. 2026
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Colonialization exacts a heavy toll.—
Taylor Crumpton,
Time,
10 Feb. 2026
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The moody Moon tugs at vigorous Mars, resulting in a square that puts pressure on your wary 8th house and your typically more light-hearted 5th house.—
Tarot.com,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2026
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The pacing slackens a little as the complicated process inches forward, but the ending tugs the heartstrings in enormously satisfying ways.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Wrings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrings. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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