wrenched
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I wrenched my back—and it took me weeks to recover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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
Very well then, the juice wrenched from the disinfected skin, and then the pulpy liquid had to be diluted with water if I hoped to make the precious oranges last at all.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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