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wrung

[ruhng] / rʌŋ /
ADJECTIVE
squeezed out
Synonyms


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Guthrie has been seen in a couple of Instagram videos since then looking exhausted and emotionally wrung out as she and her siblings try to communicate with whoever has their mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

All of these jornaleros knew each other, maybe not by their real names, but by nicknames, usually wrung from the place they had lived.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

If Warshow wrung a sizable reputation out of a small body of work, he also stuffed his very short life with experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The speculative leverage has been wrung out of this market for months.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

Then three more joined them and they swung and tilted in the wrung branches for a time, screaming.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner