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Musically and vocally gifted, they wring harmonies and beats from an assortment of instruments, mixing genres and styles with an eloquence that surpasses the exposition sprinkled into the lyrics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Historically it has used its heft to wring the lowest prices out of suppliers, playing them off each other and leaving them little profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

He has also mocked allies uneasy about the widening conflict, referring to those who "wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force."

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

That hasn’t happened since World War II. It took a famously gut-wrenching recession to wring out the last bout of high inflation from the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026

But no matter how often they repeated the words, with many different inflections, they were unable to wring any more meaning from them.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Unfortunately, the underwhelming revelations don’t elicit the tears Kore-eda regularly wrings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

As she wrings a wet cloth from a bucket of water in the living room and starts by wiping down the tables and chairs, she considers her latest ploy to save money.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

The book is structured around Prefontaine’s biggest races, which Mr. O’Meara skillfully wrings for all their drama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2025

Precipitation across the region will taper off Wednesday morning as Mother Nature wrings out the last of scattered showers over the Cascades.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

Now she rinses the cloth again and wrings it tight.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

The trumpeters persevere valiantly but, by the end of the day, everyone's wrung out.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

There was widespread exuberance in the gold market prior to its plunge, and only a small part of that exuberance has been wrung out of the market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 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 princess narrowed her eyes at the small councilman, who wrung his hands and dabbed his forehead with a handkerchief.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Earnings Gold: Big tech companies are starting to strike gold with AI, but investors are still wringing their hands over the multibillion-dollar bets on data centers and chips.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

You’ll want to get caught up ahead of next week’s twist—and by “twist,” I don’t mean a surprise but rather a wringing, in this case of a company by its shareholders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

There’s no proverbial wringing of hands around the character’s decision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

Often angry, she specialised in wringing laughs out of the most unlikely material.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

Snape was wringing his hands: He looked a little mad, with his straggling black hair flying around him.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling