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By precisely measuring that motion and the associated gravitational torque, the researchers could calculate one value for G. Torque is simply a twisting force, similar to the force used when turning a wrench.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

This latest injury could throw a wrench in that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The yen’s slide to a 40-year low indirectly threatened to bump up U.S. interest rates and risked throwing a wrench in plans to pull billions of dollars of Japanese investment into the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

That worked until the Iran war threw a wrench in gold’s momentum, with rising oil prices raising worries about inflation and expectations for Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Travis slipped the other bolt in and hand-tightened it, finishing it with the wrench.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

The unnatural act of throwing a baseball still tears tendons and wrenches elbows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

At every turn, it shows its people trusting each other, taking care of each other, and dealing with the unexpected wrenches and scripts that would break most devices.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

The teacher-turned-Minnesota governor wrenches on cars and goes to classic auto shows, too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

The space is a horseshoe-shaped echo of Wool’s work — raw, agitated — and the restless elegance he wrenches from a feeling of decay.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

He grabbed a couple of wrenches out of the toolbox and headed for the stairs.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

While the S&P 500 has wrenched up and down but gone pretty much nowhere this year, international, emerging-market, small stocks and value stocks have taken off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Now we know with painful clarity what it is to be wrenched from our homes.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2025

He dove into the waves and wrenched us back aboard somehow.

From Salon ● May 11, 2024

Farmer: Justin Herbert was wincingly vulnerable doing anything after that hand injury, and it’s easy to imagine that thing getting wrenched in a pile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

She wrenched the flashlight from his grasp and pushed off him to regain her feet.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Then it was Suzann Pettersen's gut wrenching and ultimately successful putt on the final green at the Scottish course that decided the outcome.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

“We’re going to go through a fairly wrenching time,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Speaking that same year, Miliband told BBC Political Thinking he was still recovering from what he labelled a "gut wrenching" defeat that was "in many ways" a personal rejection of him.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

From that point in the novel to its wrenching end, June searches for her baby with the passionate abandon of a first-time mother and the aching hunger of every mother separated from her child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

But I myself didn’t cry about Papa, or have any inkling of what was wrenching Mama’s heart, until the next time I saw him, almost a year later.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston