wring
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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
They’re on the sidelines trying to wring their hands and say, “What can be done about this?”
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2025
When they paid off the crew, Lupe reached a calloused hand to wring Nat’s fingers.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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