wrung
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The trumpeters valiantly persevere but, by the end of the day, everyone's wrung out.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
Guthrie has been seen in a couple of Instagram videos since then looking exhausted and emotionally wrung out as she and her siblings try to communicate with whoever has their mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026
All of these jornaleros knew each other, maybe not by their real names, but by nicknames, usually wrung from the place they had lived.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026
If Warshow wrung a sizable reputation out of a small body of work, he also stuffed his very short life with experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
It was as though the cholera had wrung everything out of the villagers’ bodies and found nothing left to attack except their spirits.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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