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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

Efforts to wring laughs out of a genuinely awful situation yield only a few uncomfortable chuckles, such as when Charlie and Emma strike some warmup poses for a wedding photographer during an impromptu session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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

And then—I don’t know how to tell you exactly, but she shut her eyes, she began to shake her head, very slowly, and wring her hands, very slowly, and to whimper, or whisper.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

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

“No. He said that the heart wrings itself out. It twists in two different directions, like you’d do to squeeze the water out of a wet towel.”

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

As the rest of the soccer world wrung its hands over the consequences of political interference with what happened on the pitch, the U.S. remained unapologetic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025

The women washed the sheets in the galley and wrung them out, and we hung them to dry upon the rails, so our ship flapped gray in the winter breeze.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

There were also comments from the US side about their UK counterparts "wringing their hands" about information over Andrew.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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

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

She was on the porch wringing out Henry’s work clothes when she heard a truck turn off of the main road and onto the dirt road that led only to the Humble houses.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez