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Wringed


Definition:

  • () of Wring

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "That would be good news for the tobacco industry in its endless search to wring profits out of new addicts, but terrible news for children and young people across Europe ."
  • (2) That’s not only because they hold so many title deeds, but also because modern governments are given to wringing their hands and declaring their own impotence in the face of multinationals.
  • (3) Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the "loss and damage" incurred.
  • (4) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
  • (5) CiU, which has governed Catalonia for 25 of the 33 years since democracy was restored, has never aspired to independence, preferring to wring more autonomy out of minority governments in Madrid.
  • (6) He hailed the commitment from industrialised countries to provide $100bn (£61bn) a year in climate funding without wringing significant concessions out of emerging powers as a significant victory, and signalled that the close links with China were set to continue.
  • (7) Long before anyone ever wrote an article about the “gig economy”, corporations had discovered the higher profits they could wring out of an on-demand workforce made up of independent contractors.
  • (8) Ministers rightly wring their hands over the 2,200 jobs being lost at the 98-year-old Redcar steelworks hit by low-cost Chinese competition .
  • (9) Rather than wringing our hands about the white working class and immigration, we need to deal with the underlying issues that make white and black people hostile to immigration; things like housing and job security.
  • (10) We had to wring out our clothes to drink our sweat from them.
  • (11) But that is informed consent – which users can’t see, but I’m putting in quotes.” Asked by the host, Alex Goldman, if OKCupid had ever considered bringing in an ethicist to vet the experiments, Rudder said: “To wring his hands all day for a $100,000 a year?”.
  • (12) He claimed that he would only support membership of the European Union if he could wring the right concessions from other continental leaders.
  • (13) Article after article tracks the coalfield’s economic decline , but no one living in post-industrial Wales needs such well-meaning hand-wringing to awaken them to their situation.
  • (14) Though the reforms received widespread bipartisan support at the time they passed Congress and are supported by the White House, a backlash has grown in recent weeks, with figures such as CIA director John Brennan criticising “hand-wringing” over surveillance.
  • (15) I feel self-conscious talking about it,” Biden said, looking down solemnly and occasionally wringing his hands.
  • (16) We believe the responsible approach to business and consumption is to be transparent about our own impact, and keep working to wring out waste in our own activities.” However, financial disclosure records for the US Senate indicate that Oglivy Government Relations – a standalone lobbying firm in the same Washington DC office building as Oglivy PR – represents some of the most ferocious opponents of Barack Obama’s efforts to act on climate change, including the American Petroleum Institute, the biggest oil industry lobby.
  • (17) The edema is measured volumetrically subsequent to squashing the rat paw under standardized conditions in a wringing-machine with two wooden rollers.
  • (18) A call for the people of Rome to clean up their city and show some civic pride has gone viral following months of hand-wringing about the sorry state of Italy’s capital.
  • (19) It is, ironically, the same people on the whole who hand-wring about our pensions deficit and the loss of living standards, who also disapprove of the state subsidising people raising many children and rail against migrants.
  • (20) But three years on, for all the hand-wringing, the economic upheaval and the promises of politicians, there is a whiff of business as usual in the air.

Wringer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner.
  • (n.) A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Review of the records at Milwaukee Children's Hospital between the years 1973 and 1983 revealed that of the 99 wringer injuries seen, 80 of 99 patients were radiographed and only five fractures were diagnosed.
  • (2) A clinical survey of 92 upper extremity wringer injuries over the past four years at the Bexar County Hospital are presented.
  • (3) Of these fractures only two were attributable to the wringer device and these two required therapy.
  • (4) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
  • (5) I thought I went through the wringer last week against Derby.
  • (6) Ninety-two upper extremity compression injuries secondary to washing machine wringers were reviewed.
  • (7) While the number of wringer washing machine injuries is declining due to the increasing use of automatic washing machines, these injuries still occur.
  • (8) Paxman said Entwistle was "put through the wringer" during the David Kelly affair after the programme's science editor Susan Watts told him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
  • (9) "This is a little bit about Thai navy payback where Phuketwan has been a thorn in the side of the navy for many years in the handling of the Rohingya and the navy is determined to put them through the wringer," Robertson said.
  • (10) It opened in 1972, a few months before a break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at Washington’s Watergate hotel and office complex led to Woodward and Bernstein’s revelation of crime and cover-up at the highest level of government (“Katie Graham’s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published,” US attorney general John Mitchell fumed).
  • (11) Wednesday January 16 2013 Who says Guardian readers are a bunch of sandal-wearing hand-wringers knitting their own organic hemp underwear and obsessing about the origins of their lentil homebrew?
  • (12) He also had a remarkable owner behind him in the Post’s proprietor, Katharine Graham – famously warned early on in the saga by the White House that she would “get her tit caught in a big fat wringer”.
  • (13) In this report we describe our experience with the gastroschisis wringer clamp (GWC).
  • (14) Jeremy Paxman has recalled how his former boss was "put through the wringer" after Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, revealed to him that the weapons inspector was a source of her reports on Iraq's military capabilities.
  • (15) This, after all, is the director who put Isabelle Huppert through the wringer in The Piano Teacher, foreshadowed the rise of Nazism in The White Ribbon and douses the lights altogether with Amour.
  • (16) Like many who came to power under the Blair-Brown aegis, she has learned to say nothing that hasn't already gone through the "will this win votes" wringer.
  • (17) The GWC is an autoclavable, 140-g, aluminum alloy device reminiscent of an old wringer washing machine.
  • (18) He points to the first appearance of the witch Tiffany Aching, a central character in his young adult titles – the precocious nine-year-old puts various fairy stories through the wringer of her enquiring mind.
  • (19) Down the years the director has been accused of pushing his actors – and particularly his female actors – too hard; of feeding them through the wringer and all but sniggering at their discomfort.
  • (20) If all you knew of Tracey Thorn was her music, you might think she had spent the last 30 years being squeezed through the emotional wringer.

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