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If you’ve ever read anything by biographer Robert Caro, you get the feeling that he could wring 100 pages out of what he had for breakfast.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Wet, then wring out and wave around these arm sleeves before snapping them on—research shows they provide a sensation up to 30 degrees below body temperature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Noticing that the outdoor space got just enough light to wring out some tomatoes, we headed to the nursery to top off our nest.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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

Little good that did, since he couldn’t wring any meaning from it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Like Detectorists before it, this is a series that wrings emotion from the commonplace and everyday – only this time, the treasure Crook has buried is altogether more peculiar.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

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

Munch wrings an amazing range of tones and textures out of simple black and white, particularly when he surrounds a face, or figure at a piano, with expanses of unbroken ink.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Plaza, whose comedy chops were honed on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” wrings a complete biography from her character’s uningratiating manner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

But real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

So forget the grandchildren, we are the people over whom so many hands have been wrung over the last 40 years.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 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

For all his bluster in front of the Council, he had never so much as wrung the neck of a chicken for a nice dinner.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“Those of us that disagree with those ideas are kind of talking about the problems we see, wringing our hands at cocktail parties, but we’re not as organized as we need to be,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

But with so little to go on, those following his condition closely are wringing every word – or missing word – for meaning.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

To all the baseball fans out there who are wringing their hands and proclaiming doom for MLB because the Dodgers have been flexing their financial muscle, I say PHOOEY!

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025

“You said just the other day you had plenty to do here,” Dad tells me, wringing out his rag at the pump.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor