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as in to pry
to draw out by force or with effort
the boy wrested the book out of his sister's hands
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as in to grab
to separate or remove by forceful pulling
wrested open the stuck door of the cabinet
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Recent Examples of wrest
Soto's addition is the Mets' most aggressive move yet to wrest the Big Apple spotlight away from the Yankees.
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David K. Li, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
For the same reasons and the same strategies, China seems intent on wresting that title away from the U.S.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Horowitz cultivates these credos in his clients, yet his usual practice is to wrest books from the grip of one, bestow them into the hands of another, then wrest them back for a third.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
That, on paper, could wrest time from Hernández, who also was acquired to hit lefties but has struggled to do so for much of this season.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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David K. Li, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
For the same reasons and the same strategies, China seems intent on wresting that title away from the U.S.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
Horowitz cultivates these credos in his clients, yet his usual practice is to wrest books from the grip of one, bestow them into the hands of another, then wrest them back for a third.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
That, on paper, could wrest time from Hernández, who also was acquired to hit lefties but has struggled to do so for much of this season.
—Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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The Peekskill Central School District in New York is warning families of a disturbing new scam in which criminals use generative artificial intelligence to mimic children’s voices in an attempt to extort money from unsuspecting parents.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Tacopina said the allegations were an attempt to extort money from A$AP Rocky.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Traveler’s Choice Pagosa 2-piece Luggage Set $220 $170 at Amazon This stylish two-piece luggage set from Traveler’s Choice, $50 off, has earned over 3,000 five-star ratings at Amazon alone.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Jan. 2025
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In those five-plus weeks, the Mavericks earned wins over quality West competitors such as the Oklahoma City Thunder, Denver Nuggets and Memphis Grizzlies.—
Christian Clark,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2023
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The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.—
Kelly Allen,
House Beautiful,
10 Feb. 2023
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Fans eager to play the game as Ice Spice can grab her Fortnite skins in the Item Shop.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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Zar rushed to a drawer and grabbed from it passports, as well as insurance and banking documents.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN,
13 Jan. 2025
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This suggests that the Galaxy S25 series will use Gemini to extract information from YouTube videos and create new notes in the Samsung Notes app.—
Paul Monckton,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Rescue efforts were in their third day on Wednesday, with a red cylindrical metal cage being painstakingly lowered into the mine to extract survivors and corpses.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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These forces squeeze a star horizontally while stretching it vertically.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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Egypt lost $7 billion in crucial revenue from the Suez Canal in 2024 as the conflict in Gaza has squeezed shipping in the Red Sea, according to government officials.—
Vivian Yee,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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Holloway angrily insists, as seen in bodycam video obtained by NJ.com.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
17 Jan. 2025
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Detectives with the Suffolk County State Police Detective Unit and the Crime Scene Services Section responded to the scene at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts State Police (MSP) said in a news release obtained by PEOPLE.—
Abigail Adams,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Electrons gently tug on protons in the lattice, drawing them inward to create an excess of positive charge.—
Charlie Wood,
WIRED,
12 Jan. 2025
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There’s an image of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was arrested in 2022 for not wearing her hijab to the Iranian morality police’s liking and died in custody under suspicious circumstances, tugging on the Grand Ayatollah’s beard with her hair free-flowing.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacramento Bee,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Wrest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrest. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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