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

There are very few men who will wrest out of existence as much as I will, or know and have as much of life.

From Love's Pilgrimage by Sinclair, Upton