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as in to pry
to draw out by force or with effort
willing to use torture if necessary in order to wring the information out of the terrorist
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Recent Examples of wring
The hardest part was to learn how to wring the noodles like an expert.
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Allow the dishcloth to cool before wringing it out, rinsing it with cold water, and hanging it to air dry.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Jan. 2025
That should be an urgent call to action, but since the election, pundits and politicos have wrung their hands over Trump’s surprising gains in New York.
—Donna Lieberman, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
And after Trump expressed openness to possible military force on Greenland or the Panama Canal, leaders may have more to wring their hands about, Bratt said.
—Julia Mueller, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
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Kate O'Flaherty Ransom DDoS Is On The Rise In the final quarter of 2024, Cloudflare observed a surge in Ransom DDoS attacks, where adversaries try to extort money by threatening to take down their targets' web properties or networks.—
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The policy was a boon for drug cartel members, who targeted asylum seekers to extort, kidnap and rape them, human rights groups say.—
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The Thunder are far enough ahead to likely earn the top seed in the conference standings but Denver will represent the West in the NBA Finals.—
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Nina O’Brien, with an eighth-place run on Friday, also earned a top-10 finish for the U.S. team.—
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Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.—
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The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.—
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These are dunked in grapefruit ponzu or spicy kimchi dressing or simply squeezed with lemon.—
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It’s further squeezed by competition from others in the space, including Etsy, Michael’s and Hobby Lobby, as well as big-box and online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart.—
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In a complaint filed on Thursday, Feb. 20, in the U.S. District Court in Georgia, and later obtained by PEOPLE, passenger Marthinus Lourens said he was injured during the Monday, Feb. 17 landing and evacuation from Delta Flight 4819 that carried 76 passengers and four crew members.—
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Depositphotos The researchers obtained data from the 2017-2022 Veradigm Metabolic Registry (VMR), which longitudinally follows more than 1.5 million patients and is designed to improve the quality of diabetes and cardiometabolic care across the United States.—
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By the wannabe Yoda’s logic, as successful as a network like NBC was at the time, within a few years, one of its lesser rivals would almost surely mount a miraculous comeback and leave the Peacock looking plucked.—
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The women’s High Rise Flare Stripe Pant feature bold white and orange stripes, plucked from Whataburger’s retro restaurant designs.—
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Furthermore, Syria could demand regular base extensions from Russia, a far cry from that 49-year lease Assad bestowed, and extract other significant concessions.—
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That plan already extracts relatively high premiums while offering bare-bones coverage.—
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Along with the anger, there is resignation — a grim acceptance that this news may sound the death knell for their already slim hopes of wresting the Premier League title away from Liverpool.—
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Iran’s current weakness and desperation offer Rouhani and his allies an opportunity to wrest back power.—
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“Wring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wring. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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