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The decision was wrenching, Tokuda-Hall said, but she turned Scholastic down and went public, describing her predicament in a blog post and a Twitter post that drew more than five million views.

From New York Times • May 6, 2023

While it was good to be all together, Kulcsar said the decision to flee was wrenching.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2022

And her take on “Sein wir wieder gut” from Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” was wrenching and resonant on multiple levels; her declaration of music as a sacred art sung with the passion of a hymn.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2021

The experience was wrenching for Keller and proved to her early on just how easy the same people who had put her on a pedestal found it to turn on her.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2021

An electronic river of true pain had sprung up in that period of national soul-searching, far deeper than I’d imagined, and it was wrenching to have so much of it run literally through my fingers.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz