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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

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

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

Day takes off his cap and wrings out his hair.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

Emery has wrung everything out of his players.

From BBC ● May 7, 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

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

And “This is Giles,” said Maxim, prodding my arm, and Giles stretched out an enormous paw and wrung my hand, squeezing the fingers limp, genial eyes smiling from behind horn-rimmed glasses.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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

“I am Llewelyn the Fifteenth, Prince of the Red Woods,” he said while wringing the water from his long scarlet cape.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova