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[ring] / rɪŋ /


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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

Lady Ingram thought it “le cas” to wring her hands: which she did accordingly.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

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

She dries herself off and wrings out her sari, standing in her blouse and petticoat.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

Guthrie has been seen in a couple of Instagram videos since then looking exhausted and emotionally wrung out as she and her siblings try to communicate with whoever has their mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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

Repetition had wrung from Clement’s speech any controversy it might have once contained.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

But the truth is, you have to be wringing the Turbo out pretty hard to feel a difference.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The “Obsession” score is an ingenious showcase of decay and reinvention, taking day-spa keyboard swells and wringing them out beyond recognition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

"She was wringing her hands. She was scared. I trusted them. And they've seriously let us down, and they've let her down. That's cruelty."

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025

She was going to get wrinkles from all that wringing.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon




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