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[ring] / rɪŋ /


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Senior employees of Live Nation bragged about their ability other wring money out of ticket-buying customers, saying they were “robbing them blind.”

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

He has also mocked allies uneasy about the widening conflict, referring to those who "wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force."

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

That hasn’t happened since World War II. It took a famously gut-wrenching recession to wring out the last bout of high inflation from the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026

All of the above is what it takes to wring 268 globally compliant horsepower out of a 2.0-liter gas engine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

After every wet crossing, I would shake like a dog and wring out my clothes as best I could so they dried in ridges white with salt.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk




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