wrench

Thad Kousser, a UC-San Diego political science professor, said that electing election skeptics to office doesn’t necessarily mean that they will throw a wrench into the process.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

By precisely measuring that motion and the associated gravitational torque, the researchers could calculate one value for G. Torque is simply a twisting force, similar to the force used when turning a wrench.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Most people would vouch for specific items, such as a spare tire or a lug wrench, if they had limited choices on what to keep in their car every day.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Anthony was attempting to re-tension the electrically-operated sectional overhead doors at the site using an industrial wrench when the tool slipped, according to the HSE.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

The twitch turned into a wrench when Clarence raised his voice to declare the next one was two-step and Derrick handed his drum to Tree.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

I struggle with transitions, and Monday is the day that wrenches me most abruptly from one mode into another: weekend to workweek, spaciousness to schedules, vague possibility to the tyranny of the calendar.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The unnatural act of throwing a baseball still tears tendons and wrenches elbows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

More wrenches were thrown into the process when Juan Soto’s record signing with the New York Mets created new potential suitors in Hernández’s free agency, as the next-best free-agent outfielder on the open market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024

The space is a horseshoe-shaped echo of Wool’s work — raw, agitated — and the restless elegance he wrenches from a feeling of decay.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

Even Artemis’s extensive set of Allen wrenches were unable to find purchase in the tiny grooves.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

While the S&P 500 has wrenched up and down but gone pretty much nowhere this year, international, emerging-market, small stocks and value stocks have taken off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Now we know with painful clarity what it is to be wrenched from our homes.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2025

He dove into the waves and wrenched us back aboard somehow.

From Salon ● May 11, 2024

But their family was wrenched apart before her fifth birthday in the wake of Kenya's independence, putting her mother's life at risk "when Kenya asked all the white people to leave".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023

“Tripped and wrenched my ankle pretty badly, but Miss Charity was able to help me along. It’s nothing, really.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Then it was Suzann Pettersen's gut wrenching and ultimately successful putt on the final green at the Scottish course that decided the outcome.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

You probably think the stock market has been wrenching up and down like mad since the Iran war started at the end of February.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

From that point in the novel to its wrenching end, June searches for her baby with the passionate abandon of a first-time mother and the aching hunger of every mother separated from her child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Pescatore said D’Amaro has a major advantage in that the company Iger leaves behind is well positioned for the wrenching changes facing the current media landscape.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026

“I’m fine,” she said to Pearl now, and with a wrenching effort she let her daughter go.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng