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U.S. stocks saw a strong reversal in fortunes in October, as worries about dwindling free cash flows and rising borrowing costs threw a wrench into the artificial-intelligence trade.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Sewage Joe and almost every character I play either has a wrench or a shovel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

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

Hazel squirmed, trying desperately to wrench herself free.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

I struggle with transitions, and Monday is the day that wrenches me most abruptly from one mode into another: weekend to workweek, spaciousness to schedules, vague possibility to the tyranny of the calendar.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

One casualty was a Texas plant built to make Craftsman-brand wrenches and ratchet sets that had been coming from China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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

The Commandant graduates us, and the cheer that erupts out of the new Masks, raw and relieved, is what wrenches me from my thoughts.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

I wrenched my back—and it took me weeks to recover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Railroad lines and roads and bridges were wrenched away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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

He heaved the pick into the icy earth, wrenched it free, plunged it in again.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Or does anyone else on the 30-strong shortlist stand a chance of wrenching it from her grasp?

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Aurich has spent his entire football life wrenching last-second victories from the jaws of defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Rangers were obviously hoping reuniting McInnes with Lawrence Shankland would be a winning formula after they went so close to wrenching the title away from Celtic while at Hearts last season.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

He jumped when a loud clang cracked through the air, followed by the wrenching sound of metal screeching against metal.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner