WRINGS Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

wrings

verb

present tense third-person singular of wring

as in extorts

to get (as money) by the use of force or threats that bill collector is willing to do anything to wring money out of deadbeats

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as in earns

to get with great difficulty after years of trying to wring a decent profit out of the business, he is finally giving up

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as in pulls

to move by or as if by a forceful rotation I'm so mad I could wring your neck

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as in pries

to draw out by force or with effort willing to use torture if necessary in order to wring the information out of the terrorist

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Recent Examples of wrings Bass wrings both roteness and refinement out of examining the road to the altar. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026 The intensity of the crowds vary from stop to stop (Czech came ready to rage at Rock for People in June), but Halsey persistently wrings herself out. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026 Unfortunately, the underwhelming revelations don’t elicit the tears Kore-eda regularly wrings. — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026 The perennial funnyman suffered an immense tragedy earlier this year with the loss of his daughter, Katherine, yet still wrings laughs out of flamboyant director Oliver Putnam on Only Murders in the Building five seasons in. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026 Barkin, who was dating Levinson at the time of the film’s production, gamely strives to anchor the odd, histrionic film with her performance and wrings real pathos out of Lynn’s brittle and wounded demeanor. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026 Her sometimes slacker, sometimes twee rock takes recurring major sevenths and wrings them for all their existential meaning. — Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 27 Mar. 2026 There is a premonitory moment, too, in this book that wrings so much drama from so many backdoor meetings. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026 Austen wrings a great deal of humor from Lady Bertram’s dopey languor. — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026

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Verb

That wrestling match itself, however, makes for compelling theater about as often as the camel squeezes through the needle.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
The jobs market has been resilient even as stubbornly high inflation squeezes businesses and households.

— Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of squeezes

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On an 8-yard run a bit earlier, Willis deftly escaped being tackled 1 yard short on a third-and-5, displaying the type of second effort that earns respect from everyone.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Beyond that, its balance of top-tier audio and easily good-enough image quality and brightness for the price earns the P1 our Editors' Choice award for a 1080p room-to-room portable.

— M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of earns

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Abercrombie keeps moving away from its old identity while Hollister pulls recognizable pieces of its past back onto the racks.

— Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
As Béatrice’s amateur detective work pulls her in deeper, the strands begin to suggest a conspiracy, one marked by mysterious disappearances and the clandestine sway of the Vatican.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of pulls

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By fields of cotton and soybeans where his bees forage and pollinate, Foster Hensel pries open the lid of one of his beehives, setting off a rising hum from inside.

— Drew Hawkins, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026
Remove the 11 Philips-head screws on the bottom of the laptop, and its bottom pries up with a bit of pressure.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of pries

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The determination to do so sometimes exacts a great price, as Gettysburg attests.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
Onshoring hasn’t taken off as a runaway trend even as the current political administration exacts punishing duties on offshore production markets far and wide.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of exacts

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Trump sometimes plucks memes from a sprawling ecosystem of online conservative supporters, and sometimes his government staff produces them as part of their official messaging.

— Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of plucks

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Rio Tinto in Canada extracts high-purity scandium oxide from titanium dioxide waste streams produced from its Lac Tio mine operations in Quebec.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
That web lasted about a decade before it was dismantled, piece by piece, in favor of one that extracts profits from similar interactions.

— Betsy Blondin, Longreads, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of extracts

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If New England somehow wrests the divison away from Buffalo, Vrabel gets serious consideration.

— Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Like everything else that works here, Brie’s performance wrests the last scraps of freshness from a mode of filmmaking this movie knows is played out, but doesn’t have the particular strength to reinvent.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 June 2026