wringer
Example Sentences
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DC Studios has already been through the wringer, and taking too big a swing could prove a major loss just as the DCU is finding its footing.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Fans, who've already been through the wringer, will be watching with even more trepidation than usual.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
I left the theater feeling giddily put through the wringer by its contrarian depictions of heroes and fiends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Arne Slot has no hair left to lose but the man celebrating his 47th birthday might have been left feeling a few years older as his Liverpool team put him through the wringer again.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
At the presentation of his conference paper, Oppenheimer was run through the intellectual wringer by Robert Millikan, the notoriously prickly Caltech president.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
