wracked
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The recent software rally has offered some vindication for bulls who stood by their contrarian calls after a brutal selloff wracked the sector earlier this year.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
Rowe wracked her brain for something, or someone, who might be able to help her sister.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
Less than 18 months after he was drafted, Lesch, wracked by a rotator cuff injury, was released, his major league dream over before he was old enough to legally buy a beer.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
"In other words, these people are coming into a country that is wracked by drought, that has unemployment, and that now has conflict inside it."
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
When she was dying, wracked with her irruptions, in the slave quarters of that house in Canaan, this libation sat by her, untouched.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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