wound up
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Proponents like Liverpool owner John Henry wound up apologizing for mucking with the product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Open, where he wound up finishing tied for 23rd as the low amateur, it was time to go pro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Sarah Ferguson's charity, Sarah's Trust, has formally wound up and is marked as "removed" on the public register of charities.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The line wound up being a disaster with a reshuffled cast virtually every week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
But instead I wound up on the East Coast.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
A clearly wound-up Stuart Broad told Carey, "That's all you will be remembered for".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2023
Their lingering anxiety has real, physical side effects including feeling restless, wound-up or on edge, Mimiaga says.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
Film critic Roger Ebert admiringly called him “the most wound-up guy in the movies,” a description Caan did not dispute.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
As an angsty, wound-up 15 year old, that was my tempo, not the mellow tempo of Fleetwood Mac and all those stadium bands and stuff.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2020
It’s like I’m a wound-up toy with nowhere to move.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
