wrest
verb (used with object)
to twist or turn; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist.
will wrest
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future tenseof wrest.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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It will wrest power from the large tech corporations, resulting in both much more innovation and a much more challenging regulatory landscape.
From Slate ● May 30, 2023
Web3 has been billed, often in vague and utopian terms, as an online ecosystem where users will wrest power from the tech behemoths that dominate the current phase of the internet, Web 2.0.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
Outside the Box Creation Art Box: These locally made art boxes will wrest them from their screens, with all the tools, supplies and instructions to make self-portraits, monster drawings or texture art.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
They will wrest “dull words” from my cold dead hands.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2015
Fear combines with ignorance to resist any conception that will wrest power from the hands of these extra-natural agents, "Nature's haughty lords," rule all, and their dynasty is the hardest of all to overthrow.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
