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  1. past tense, past participle of wring
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289 Sentences With "wrung"

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I wrung my wife's neck, then I wrung a chicken's neck for my dinner, and then I boiled and ate the chicken.
All of my stats, stamina especially, have been wrung dry.
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Worldpay has wrung ample concessions from Vantiv.
The whole ordeal left me physically and emotionally wrung out.
Her eyes were anxious, though, and she wrung her hands.
I wrung every bit of usable time from my days.
The IMF has long wrung its hands at the savings glut.
He was just 27 years old, but he felt wrung out.
"Pat" wrung his hands nervously and looked me in the eye.
How much more upside can be wrung from these forces alone?
Empty shampoo bottles and wrung-out toothpaste tubes floated in the sea.
Spotify wrung €439 million of cash out of working capital in 2017.
Mr. Rickman wrung every malevolent drop that he could from Gruber's boastful lines.
Being wrung out has hardly resulted in the term falling into disuse, however.
After that, I grabbed his billy and wrung it out of his hand.
The best we did was over three days, and we were wrung out.
Now, however, much of the slack has been wrung out of the labor market.
But there are probably plenty more dollars to be wrung from Apple's existing products.
I'd shower only after every last drip of the day had been wrung out.
They mopped it up with a towel and wrung it out over the side.
Hands have been wrung, navels have been gazed, and self-recriminations have been made.
Kobe Bryant telegraphed his exit, then wrung every drop of goodwill he could from it.
Like "Shut Up and Dance," it's entertainment designed for people who enjoy feeling wrung out.
No one will be eager to drop him until every last drop has been wrung.
Both films are beautifully acted, beautifully shot, and designed to leave viewers emotionally wrung out.
Commentators wrung their hands: London was likened to an invading army and a giant octopus.
Red tablecloths were still wrung out, and no one was around to seat the crowd.
Yes, but: There are savings to be wrung out of the highly concentrated PBM industry.
The soil should feel like a wrung-out sponge, not heavy wet, just lightly wet.
Mr. Lee has wrung lots of wonderful acting from lots of different kinds of actors.
Small wonder that, when it was over, he felt as wrung-out as Jesus on Golgotha.
Traditionalists wrung their hands, but for a while it looked like Demand Content's model was working.
But the concessions wrung out of the participating countries turn out to be negligible at best.
Producers there have wrung costs out of their factories to survive in a brutally competitive market.
We may have wrung about as much good as we can out of these observational studies.
Lubezki have wrung from mundane modern structures like skyscrapers (The Tree of Life) and Sonic drive-ins
In the 27 years since then, campaigners have slowly wrung the truth from the institutions at fault.
She said that while purists sometimes wrung their hands about its commercialization, their lamentations were in vain.
He dunked his blue cotton scarf in water, wrung it out, and wrapped it around his head.
She pulled the long sleeves of her black shirt down to her wrists, then wrung her hands.
Mr. Rattle stepped ahead briskly in the timeless finale, but wrung every drop of passion from it.
The long-distance romance is wrung of all drama, every breakup and row described in minute detail.
But that conversation was like a cloth already wrung dry, and soon we were sitting in silence.
Libby Nelson: To quote Elizabeth in a scene that absolutely wrung me out emotionally: Are you crazy?
His face was fat, his eyes cold and tortured, his striped tie wrung tightly around his neck.
Many were unhappy with either choice, and all week Parisians wrung their hands over fears of abstention voters.
But Ms. Bishop, feeling wrung out, retreated home to Texas and redirected her energies to writing short fiction.
All these economic records have come while the establishment has wrung its hands over the Trump administration tariffs.
Some of the efficiency improvements wrung from the supply chain during the slump are likely to prove enduring.
We wrung the water out of the shirt both times to help it dry as fast as possible.
But you watch Ms. Sciorra in "Jungle Fever" and wonder whether she's wrung something new out of him.
Before taking the stand, Officer Shelby, 43, wrung her hands and looked nervous while consulting with her lawyer.
Yancey wrestled with a tiny fragment of a sample until he had wrung all the soul from it.
Inside, Aroche was thumbing through an envelope of documents that he had wrung out of the state government.
She wrung startling drama from traditionalist songs turned contemporary in a set that spanned folklore, humor, grief and rage.
"It's indicative that they've wrung out as much innovation as they can out of current supply chains," Rolston said.
Physicists have now wrung out all the information they can from that data run, and the results remain inconclusive.
Remember, this is the same platform that wrung its hands over how to handle the accounts of literal Nazis.
I had been wrung through the legal system before and knew the long, arduous process I was in for.
It's possible this is because writers think there are more stories to be wrung out of misery than happiness.
"Certain Democratic strategists wrung their hands when Hispanic groups correctly called out these attacks as racist," Mr. Fallon said.
Some policy experts question whether all those costs could actually be wrung out of the nation's health care system.
When it did not, some debt holders declared Valeant in default and wrung higher interest rates out of the company.
It may have wrung the genre dry in the process — so far, its legacy is copycat series with impatient plotting.
The organizers of SXSW wrung their hands, even after its biggest tech exhibitors—Twitter and Facebook among them—pulled out.
At the same time, as the brooms scratched the pavement and people wrung out wet clothes, there was little complaining.
Other museum directors wrung their hands over what the departure might mean for their trustees who could be similarly targeted.
Most hail from Germany and the United States, and distillers like Mr. Wills have readily wrung profit from their thirst.
Disbelief followed by dread, nausea, and tears that wrung out of my body so forcefully it gave me stomach cramp.
After all that waterlogged woe, it's hard not to feel wrung out with emotion when Pericles reaches safe harbor at last.
It has flattered Mrs May with comparisons to Margaret Thatcher, who wrung a celebrated rebate out of the EU in 1984.
"I had no idea if I was going to come back or not," said Dressel, whose joy had been wrung dry.
At the same time, they've wrung cost reductions from oilfield services firms and used technology to help them drill more efficiently.
It's largely eerie and ghostly, which is all the more striking knowing the everyday sources from which these recordings were wrung.
Some old-timers wrung their hands to see a founding European principle jettisoned so easily, if only for one troublesome member.
And heaven help you if you get wrung the title of the Third Assistant to the Fourth Deputy to the Undersecretary.
The board shrewdly swatted away the first opportunistic entreaty and has wrung another 4 percent out of Harbour since mid-March.
Three generations of Spanish women cope with life's troubles in this movie from Pedro Almodóvar, wrung from telenovelas and Hollywood weepies.
By the end, we feel so wrung out it takes a second or two to realize that very little has happened.
Preferreds have rallied to the point where there's no value left...most of the performance has been wrung out of them.
The little moisture that does evaporate into the air currents gets wrung out over the mountains in California to the west.
Mr. Cohen, who began his remarks wrung-out and drained, showed the combativeness that had kept him on the Trump payroll.
It's a weird analogy, but think of how a sponge shrinks as it's wrung out, then enlarges when it absorbs water again.
It's not clear how much mileage can be wrung out of that formula, or how the show fits into Rudd's busy schedule.
If you've wrung every drop of enjoyment out of the main game, an expansion will give you new toys to play with.
What struck him most was the way it handled the climactic "land of the free," which is typically wrung for maximum emotion.
We love, when doing so drags us to the very edges of ourselves, leaving us ragged and wrung out like old cloth.
Lisa Forman wrung a small waterfall from her son's sock in the shoe-changing area and declared their skate a great success.
How many times have we wrung our hands over our collective inaction when we all knew something more should have been done?
The sedan is E.P.A.-rated at 20 city and 28 highway; my heavy right foot wrung 22 miles per gallon out of it.
Another Monday, another disappointing episode of The Bachelor during which we wrung our hands and holler at Nick Viall, He Who Ruins Everything.
While the word "hipster" has seemingly lost all meaning, there's still plenty of comedy to be wrung out of this "Hipster nativity" set.
There was disbelief, followed by dread and nausea, then tears that wrung out of my body so forcefully it gave me stomach cramps.
I had moved to New York to be a writer and because I had really, like, I had wrung that towel very dry.
But it strongly believed there was real worth in the sorts of family values that have been wrung out and turned into buzzwords.
Instead, the museum added a room containing a table where confessions were wrung from arrestees, along with a reproduction of a prison cell.
To prevent your cutting board from sliding, anchor it by placing a textured dish towel or a wet, wrung out paper towel underneath.
While participants waited patiently for the alchemy to take effect, Ms. Pombo spoke about the beauty that could be wrung from food waste.
Another, NextGen Jane, raised $9 million in a round announced yesterday to use blood wrung from tampons to possibly discover early markers of endometriosis.
The same goes for much else the committee wrung its hands about, from baggage fees to a lack of space in the overhead bins.
Unfortunately for Facebook, its hands are stained with a decade and a half of data wrung out of a now cumulative 2.3 billion users.
I felt like a dirty towel being wrung out, and despite the sketchy aesthetic and rusted pipes, I also felt those promised detox benefits.
"The entirety of emotions within me are released in that private space, absorbed from my life and wrung out within those walls," he says.
At $24.99 for the hardcover, that adds to the nearly $8 billion in book sales that have already been wrung out of the series.
XXXTentacion's devoted audience needs to be fed, opening up the question of how much music can be wrung from the files he left behind.
ATLANTA — By the time Xander Schauffele hit his final drive on Sunday, the Tour Championship was a wet blanket that had been wrung dry.
"We've absolutely wrung the rag dry with ideas," Mets Manager Terry Collins said of the organization's efforts to trace the reasons for Matz's struggles.
The 526-horsepower motor wants to be wrung out, delivering amazing power and an incredible noise near the top of its 8,9953 rpm redline.
After its 2012 defeat, the Republican Party wrung its hands over the need to face demographic change in a country that's becoming majority-minority.
Hyper-real scans of seemingly regular people are warped, wrung, and twisted like taffy in a new motion graphics music video called Makin' Moves.
In April OPEC hinted that a production freeze was coming and, for weeks leading up, investors collectively wrung their hands in advance of a decision.
The biggest sensation was a revelation, wrung from Mr Cohen's lawyers by the judge's order, that one of his three legal clients was Sean Hannity.
The funds and subscriptions had been wrung from a handful of donors, most of whom had gathered in Chicago in early 1944 at Hanighen's invitation.
Across 2016, the last interesting second was wrung out of the average Thursday night game with 7:31 left to go in the fourth quarter.
They have played the game so long, for so many hours, with so much discipline, that they are now wrung dry of spontaneity or joy.
That night, at the hospital, he recalled that he was led into a room where his wife, wrung out from weeping, fell into his arms.
Paul Krugman Since last year's presidential election a number of establishment Republicans have very publicly wrung their hands over what has happened to their party.
As it flirts with the 3 percent level investors are reviewing the relative return that can be wrung from equities before the year is out.
Sanders and Buttigieg have wrung out of the caucuses what they can, and they and every other campaign are laser-focused on New Hampshire's Tuesday primary.
Thus, Lodge 49 is about how you build a community amid those ruins in a world that's been wrung dry of whatever promise it once held.
Many on the Republican side seemed so wrung out by weeks of tension and brinkmanship they are ready to offload the whole issue to the Senate.
Then too, some publishers and ad executives wrung their hands, though the industry's main trade group, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), notably decided not to object.
She wrung her personality out of the soothing, courteous tones of a space station's PA system, delivering megalomaniacal taunts in an arch, glitchy chorus of voices.
" She saw how hard her parents worked, and how the work would always leave you poor, "no matter how much sweat it wrung out of you.
Warmer waters mean that more moisture can evaporate into the air to be wrung out as rain, with torrential downpours falling in Peru's west-facing mountains.
Once the greens were wrung out and squeezed, they went into a blender with the onion mixture and some water, and then were puréed until smooth.
The resounding nave wrung my heart out harder and better than any of the desiccated marijuana, clumsily mixed drinks or inept gropings of the nights before.
The problems it saddled the country with have persisted and wrung almost every drop of generosity from a people who had prided themselves on their compassion.
Kenny is pretty much wrung dry, and so is Washoe, the mining company based in Reno, Nevada, that he inherited from his father (Craig T. Nelson).
At that point, an ambulance took him to the hospital under a police escort and his parents — terrified, angry and wrung out — had him involuntarily admitted.
As for cost-cutting, by the end of the year ABI will have wrung out the last of the $25.9bn of annual savings it expected from SAB.
Earlier, Asian shares wrung out another decade peak as data showed China's demand for imports remained buoyant, pushing the MSCI world equity index to a fresh high.
As Menlo Park (Facebook) wrung its hands, Mountain View (Google) was taking decisive action against these sites, which have been allowed to game the search engine's system.
Thank goodness we've had a good run of these lately — a puzzle like today's is like a mini vacation for a wrung-out brain, in my opinion.
Seeing Serena and Luke onscreen together, for instance, is a treat, because it's a character pairing the show hasn't wrung every last ounce of tension out of.
He considered himself reasonably calm and levelheaded, except, he recalled, for the one time when he became so stressed that he wrung his hands until they bled.
Even with the jobless rate at the lowest since the early 333s, businesses have wrung more value out of their workforce while wage growth has been subdued.
From 1994 to the present, the United States has wrung its hands and complained ineffectively as the North Koreans marched resolutely toward having nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
This is related to the fact that a warmer atmosphere with warmer oceans can carry more water vapor, which gets wrung out as heavy precipitation during storm events.
These empty promises, these dangerous executive orders, this obsession with money — we will not be able to drink oil or eat dirty, blood-wrung green paper and nickel.
Paul Greengrass has wrung suspense out of real-life events in movies like "Captain Phillips" (about the kidnapping of an American captain) and "United 93" (about the Sept.
Then, when you're all wrung out, when you feel that you don't have a single complaint left, dredge up a few more and call your member of Congress.
Wattam, by turn, never quite feels like it makes good on the plethora of contextual puzzle-solving and comedy which might have been wrung from its diverse cast.
I managed to pack young Harden off to his room by dint of threats and promises and wrung out of him a vow of twenty-four hours' silence.
Superstore is probably the best of these, marrying The Office's humane comedy wrung from the soul-crushing drudgery of menial work with a topicality it never really attempted.
The other half is to link and coordinate DERs better, using sensors and software, so that maximum energy services can be wrung out of every single kWh generated.
Wrung out by hand they were pegged with frozen hands securely to a line outside where they were almost instantly turned to frozen cotton boards flapping in the wind.
The risk of exacerbating long-standing tensions between the West and Quebec means Ottawa needs to show it wrung concessions from Bombardier, said a Liberal legislator from outside Quebec.
These themes are potent, and across the record, Matmos approach the material from all different sorts of angles, often naming the tracks for the materials from which it wrung.
The shocking clinical results resulted in nearly $4 billion being wiped out from the company in 2016 as investors wrung their hands wondering if the drug was even effective.
You encounter the earth and sense that it's very much like a body: it has weight, presence, and can be exhausted, wrung out, left shrinking in the bleaching sun.
On the other hand, there's a substantial amount of cheer to be wrung from the present moments in their careers, youthful enthusiasm that might not be there later on.
The SEC wrung a tougher settlement out of LendingClub Asset Management, an investment management unit of LendingClub and a registered investment advisor, which must pay a $4 million fine.
With its deep coffers, Founders Fund has the means to invest in its portfolio companies at later stages, when most of the risk is wrung out of the deal.
My business partner, bestie, and work wife had a baby in December, and I've wrung my hands over how that'll affect our relationship, which is core to my life.
PARELES One of the great disappointments of the tail end of the SoundCloud rap boom is how thoroughly its anarchic instincts have been all but wrung out of it.
" On a recent flight, the woman sitting across from Roxann Steinberg "took a urine-soaked cloth diaper off her baby and wrung it out onto the carpeted aisle floor.
As innocuous as the news seems, it's actually a perfect example of how simple events — wrung through the internet content machine — can be perverted, politicized, and amplified to disastrous effect.
Like the GOP's party platform, it also wrung its hands over the supposed evils of the adult industry, blaming it for an assorted grab bag of sexual woes—Teen sexting!
" She concludes, "These empty promises, these dangerous executive orders, this obsession with money — we will not be able to drink oil or eat dirty, blood-wrung green paper and nickel.
When the moisture hits a source of lift, such as a storm system, a mountain range, or both, that moisture is wrung out in the form of rain and snow.
Those same wallets indicate that the transportation hack wasn't the Muni hacker's first rodeo: They contain more than $140,000, presumably wrung out of unsuspecting victims in the last three months.
Though on various occasions he wrung his hands about her age, it didn't stop him from slipping the tongue into a mouth still eligible for coverage by her parent's insurance.
For at least one group in the US, the election results spurred more crossed-fingers than wrung hands: vaping advocates are hopeful Trump could soften regulations that threaten the industry.
The amendment is likely to clear the upper house after the opposition Congress party, which originally proposed the GST while in power, wrung concessions from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
The original investors threw in more cash, while Marin wrung even more out of Highbridge and CanAm, which now had 223 investors on board to the tune of $2325 million.
The woman put powdered soap all over their clothes and stomped the filth from them with her feet, then wrung them with her strong arms until they were almost dry.
By the end of the film's brisk 100 minutes, you'll be wrung out and spent, which is Berg's goal: He is doing nothing more than trying to replicate an experience.
His story of dreamy lovers split apart by scheming courtiers is also a protest against rulers, like the unseen duke, whose riches are wrung from the blood of their people.
Instead, Mr. Baker invested heavily in its stores, and he is widely credited with turning around the retailer's fortunes — although he has also wrung money out of its real estate.
Rodgers, the reigning most valuable player, had 1 minute 73 seconds to even the score, and he wrung every last second off the clock on the six-play, 86-yard drive.
These phenomena transport huge amounts of water vapor — the gas form of liquid water — toward the West Coast, where it will be wrung out in the form of rain and snow.
But at the NATO summit this month, when Trump claimed that he wrung a new commitment out of NATO partners on their military spending, those partners did not back him up.
He had used the death of President John F. Kennedy to pass the Civil Rights Act, and wrung the Voting Rights Act from the Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery.
So far this year, Super Bowl ads have trended away from the top-tier A-list stars in favor of emerging names and those one wrung below the A-list bracket.
Like Keystone XL, Energy East had been seen as an opportunity to expand the market for the synthetic crude oil that is wrung out of the bitumen found in Northern Alberta.
They're both deflated on her couch, positively wrung out by their endless routine of secret-keeping and resentment, of pushing each other away and then being hurt anew by the distance.
Since the election, the media and many Democratic politicians have wrung their hands over their failure to pay attention to the legitimate anger in the Trump-tilting parts of the country.
" Even "60 Minutes" personality Andy Rooney reported that guests at a cocktail party wrung their hands about Reagan's mental fitness suggesting, "I think he's out of his mind, I really do.
While much of the business media wrung its hands over Trump&aposs stealing the Labor Department&aposs thunder, National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow said his boss didn&apost "give anything away."
Between 40 and 60 percent of the state's water is pumped out of aquifers, and the underground reservoirs are being wrung dry faster than surface water can trickle down to rehydrate them.
In our experience, washing with a cotton cloth that you've wrung out to avoid putting too much direct moisture on your gloves is best — too much water will dry out the leather.
The British media, shocked and titillated by Mr. Polunin's sudden role reversal, christened him the bad boy of ballet, and the dance press wrung its collective hands over what had gone wrong.
We ethicists wrung our hands and worried as much about the rights of the prisoners as we did about the false message that was being delivered: that nasal feeding tubes are torture.
The morning of Griff's big match, the black students got up wrung out from sleeplessness and the dining hall bubbled with chatter about the dimension and the magnitude of Griff's looming triumph.
Gone was the sentimental favorite who threw no-hitters even as his Cy Young–quality skill left him, and in his place was a wrung-out sadsack with a perpetually hung head.
Wrung of their original value — a dopamine hit for me; granular user data for Mark Zuckerberg, various poorly regulated third-party merchants and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign — they seem somehow purified.
I don't recommend you do the same, for if you're more empathetic than average or prone to anxiety, you'll finish the reading sprint, as I did, emotionally wrung out and worried sick.
For all its flaws, "Fifty Shades of Grey" had a competent director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, who mostly wrung a watchable movie out of the material, partly by letting lightness and laughter in.
Commentators have wrung their hands to rawness over how a Trump presidency might inflame tensions on racial and religious fronts and what an intolerant portrait of America it would project to the world.
Not long after her birth, Leon Kass, a prominent biologist and ethicist at the University of Chicago, wrung his hands about the then-­revolutionary technology of joining sperm and egg outside the body.
Many hands have been wrung in recent months over what to do about made-up news stories created to convert social media shares into page views, ad dollars, and perhaps even political traction.
It thuds and clunks, while the pretty, delicate keys of surrounding arrangements warp and twist, like scraps of the prettiest silk being wrung taught, deformed, by hoary hands that mean to cause harm.
But this time, Qualcomm may have finally wrung enough power from its silicon to build a competent portable PC. Qualcomm expects the first 8cx computers to ship in the second half of 2019.
This two-part short about a Chevy salesman who's terrible at his job was so epic it required two episodes and a musical spoof before MST3K had wrung out every laugh it could.
Beyond productivity problems and geriatric Gene no longer working at the machine, there's a sense that big multinational companies may have wrung all the efficiencies they're going to wring out of the system.
Bakken producers have wrung more production from their rigs in recent years, but drillers in Texas' Permian and Eagle Ford formations have outpaced those gains, CNBC analysis of Energy Information Administration data shows.
With a low payroll and high-pressure tactics, Coach Jesse Marsch's team somehow wrung 60 points from 34 matches to capture the Supporters' Shield as the team with the top regular-season record.
It is an incoherent film, even as racist evangelism goes, but it is instructive in this way: These are Bannon's purest impulses and juvenile hypotheses wrung into a bucket and left to ferment.
Logistically, I was too emotionally wrung-out at the end of the day to write cover letters, and the thought of waiting it out while I built my escape ladder was becoming untenable.
That doesn't describe "He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box," a tender and violent love story set in the Jim Crow South and wrung from the memories of her mother and grandmothers.
The case before Westminster Magistrates' Court has ramifications far beyond London, and, given changes the city has already wrung from Uber, it could embolden others grappling with how to regulate ride-sharing services.
While Democrats wrung their hands, Bolton advocated for his former colleagues who testified in the impeachment inquiry against Trump during a private luncheon in Austin, Texas on Thursday, according to KXAN's Phil Prazan.
My eyes moved over the sharp geometry of black giving way to maroon, and it was the color of my mother's exhaustion when she died, of everything life had wrung out of her.
The second gallery features another sculpture, "Medusa," made of black paper rolls as thick as fire hoses that have been soaked, wrung and shaped into coils that recall the snakes of Medusa's hair.
After the profoundly divisive and unsettling presidential election of 2016, the term "self-care," wrung from the writings of Roland Barthes and Audre Lorde, began trending on Twitter, now sometimes affixed to Sunday.
It's also true that the original Incredibles no longer looks as spiffy as it did in 2004, and, thus, it's not hard to imagine this sequel looking similarly wrung out in (ye gods) 2032.
For months Mrs Clinton denied having done anything wrong—before having a begrudging acknowledgement of her blunder, and more begrudging apology for it, wrung out of her by unrelenting negative coverage of the affair.
The union, which wrung higher pay and other benefits from GM as part of the deal to end the strike by about 48,000 workers, said 57% of the members voted to approve the deal.
The union, which wrung higher pay and other benefits from GM as part of the deal to end the strike by about 48,000 workers, said 163% of the members voted to approve the deal.
At this year's installment, the team president, Steve Mills, and general manager, Scott Perry, wrung their hands while explaining the latest firing: Jeff Hornacek, the team's 21994th head coach in the past 22011 years.
Hellboy here comes across like a WWE wrestling heel — sullen, glowering, showily simplistic, and maybe ripe for a moral turnaround, but not until the film has wrung every possible fight sequence out of him.
It'll actually soak up as much as 90 times its dry weight in crude oil, and 99 percent of that oil can then be wrung out so that the material can be re-used.
Since starting to group together roughly a decade ago, the BRICS have wrung concessions from a global climate change agreement, and have improved their position in international bodies such as the International Monetary Fund.
Traditionally, networks wrung everything they could out of hits, and TV history is full of greats (say, "All in the Family") that are greater if you don't think much about their last few seasons.
The plan to let banks pack the loans into securities for sale was wrung out of months of talks with the European Union, but Renzi's critics say it would favor banks over their clients.
But when Democrats used savings wrung from Medicare provider payments to help finance the ACA insurance expansion, Republicans discovered the immense political power of being tribunes for federal spending on single-payer health care.
Where Ms. Midler wrung laughs from a line like "I'm tired, Ephraim, tired of living from hand to mouth" — sometimes even pretending to collapse in decrepitude — Ms. Peters doesn't even go for a giggle.
" — Felicidad, 35 "My husband still looks at me with lust in his eyes when I'm so utterly tired and feel like I've just been wrung through the wash… and that is so goddamn sexy.
Suddenly, the familiar ruined beauty of the South took on the Technicolor of seventies blaxploitation films—which, in their time, had wrung a kind of comic empowerment out of a raft of negative stereotypes.
He offered me a Moroccan coin as a keepsake and asked me to sign his memento card, already covered in names and greetings, a yearbook's worth of teen intensity wrung out of four short days.
Yet even with the talented cast and lavishly choreographed dance numbers courtesy of veteran director Kenny Ortega, "Descendants 3" plays like a production that has wrung all the mileage it can out of the formula.
McGrady says she and Keys, who got engaged in late 2017 after dating for more than a year and a half (and first meeting on Snapchat), haven't been wrung out by all the life changes.
While world leaders wrung their hands, thousands of Rohingya remained stranded in Myanmar, on beaches around the mouth of the Naf river, hoping to find a boat to make the short, sometimes perilous crossing to Bangladesh.
Everything about the matzo ball soup was likable, from the bits of chicken that tasted like chicken, not wrung-out stock fixings, to the golden broth swirled with dill to the single big, fluffy matzo ball.
Given that they're based on POOZY and PRPHT's vocals, each of the tracks remains heavy and harrowing, but there's an incredible variety here, so many shades of grey and black wrung out of the existing songs.
And yet this disappointment, this disenchantment, this soaking wet flannel wrung upon the flame of the spirit paled in comparison to what happened to my feelings when Frank Ocean cancelled his set at Barcelona's Primavera Sound.
The fabric must be woven, wrung, scrubbed and pounded before it can be used to create traditional Dong cotton garments — dark navy costumes with colorful flower trim for the women and plain indigo for the men.
So when the local ShopRite announced that it was moving about a mile up the road into a much larger store to be built next to the borough's high school, residents wrung their hands with concern.
Mr. Nadel said he was confident that New York could triple the amount of efficiency it has wrung from the system if it emphasized some of these measures, rather than relying on sources of renewable energy.
While a lot of hands are wrung over what movies like Joker do or don't say about the particulars of the Trump age, diamond-sharp satire like this aptly encapsulates the stupid, stupid times we live in.
By the third film in the blockbuster Planet of the Apes series, it seems like the franchise should have wrung every last narrative drop from the virus that drove humans to near extinction and boosted apes' brainpower.
As Cullinan and Ruiz wrung their hands in the wings for over two minutes, the La La Land producers became the first people ever to deliver a Best Picture acceptance speech for an award they hadn't won.
Perhaps he thought he was making his In Utero, and in many ways he did, but whereas Kurt Cobain wrung pathos out of apathy, experimental songs, and disgusting riffs, Cudi fails at wringing any emotion at all.
Banderas's melancholic presence and subtle, intricate performance add depth and intensities of feeling both because he draws so flawlessly from Almodóvar and looks wrung out, with little of the feverish intensity evident in even their recent collaborations.
Kavanaugh was calm and coherent, despite the embarrassing nature of the allegations, though he lacked the glib assurance of politicians who usually use television interviews as a get-out-of-jail card and appeared emotionally wrung out.
I've sweated in the blaze of dragon fire, shed many tears at those who left our family early, and wrung my brain dry trying to do Khaleesi and the masterful words, actions (and names) I was given, justice.
So when Daniel Day-Lewis, perhaps the greatest actor of our age, announced in June that Paul Thomas Anderson's forthcoming "Phantom Thread," about a fictional British dressmaker, would be his last film, eyebrows were raised and hands wrung.
In claustrophobically bringing us close to a character defined purely by his grief, "My Eyes Went Dark" at once presents us with too little and broadcasts too much (a well-wrung metaphor invoking Jesus's crucifixion being no exception).
I wrung the Portofino up through the Angeles Crest Highway and had such a great time snapping eye-blink shifts off the nine-speed automatic transmission, I almost hoped for a speeding ticket to frame as a souvenir.
If they weren't, they'd be more like Charlie Munger, waiting and watching for months, even years, before investing — and then only after they'd wrung the decision through many mental models to make sure it isn't one corrupted by bias.
Since Brexit and the election of President Trump, elite politicians, executives and scholars who meet here every year have wrung their hands over the wave of shocks to a global power system whose permanence most had taken for granted.
"Staff are unhappy, the actions of the commanders are ill-thought out, they (rank-and-file staff) are completely wrung out, there's a big staff shortage, no one wants to join, the treatment of subordinates is inhuman," he said.
He whipped it up as if it were a cake, kneaded it like bread, shuffled and riffled an imaginary deck of cards, wound up a clock, shook a recalcitrant umbrella, rubbed something on a washboard and wrung it out.
In contrast with big companies like Taiwan's Foxconn, which wrung $3 billion in tax credits from the State of Wisconsin to build a factory there, Fuyao ended up with a relatively modest $12 million in state and local assistance.
For his part, candidate Trump loudly promised to repeal Obama's lawless decree but, betraying the immigration-permissivist core that has always lurked beneath his restrictionist rhetoric, Trump has wrung his hands through the first eight months of his presidency.
"He wrung [Emily] out, and whether he did that by mistake or by the fact that he didn't really notice that, he couldn't really put together that she was that nervous, or that he was just playing a game," Miller said.
And the liberal punditocracy, newly enamored with political science, has become so certain that presidents cannot achieve their goals in a fractured system with multiple veto points that it has wrung hope out of politics, presuming that public opinion is static.
By the time they'd changed out of their all-white outfits, wrung out their wristbands, and walked out of the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) for the final time, they'd each banked £2.25 million ($2.94 million) in prize money.
Trade: As Niall Stanage reports, it's unclear whether Trump and his trade team wrung significant concessions from the Chinese or whether the president needed a way out as the negative consequences of the trade war began to bite (The Hill).
The Republican presidential candidate who had a "university" that wrung thousands of dollars out of credulous students with get-rich-quick promises, which was linked to an extremely shady seminar program that plagiarized course materials from an old real estate manual.
You should be able to wipe fingerprints off with a dry microfiber cloth, but if you need a bit more cleaning power, a little bit of water — again, poured onto the cloth and wrung out first — can go a long way.
The truck, however, is not equipped with water; the spilling liquid was wrung from dampened clothes that absorbed blood and other bodily matter at crime scenes in Juárez, Mexico — where 500 people were murdered in the first three months of 2010.
Scourged from his home; hunted through the swamps; hung by midnight raiders, and openly murdered in the light of day, the Negro clung to his right of franchise with a heroism which would have wrung admiration from the hearts of savages.
It was said so many times during these Finals that it's had most of the meaning wrung from it, but this is the squad James asked for; after a season of fraught, grumpy excellence and sourpuss sniping, it didn't look like nearly enough.
After all, the time-hopping, multigenerational NBC tear-jerker, which kicked off its third season on Tuesday night with "Nine Bucks," wrung nearly two seasons-worth of television out of the looming question of how Pearson family patriarch Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) died.
But we could also hop into the wayback machine for this delightful old Molly O'Neill recipe for pan-fried trout with rosemary, lemon and capers, a dinner she made for The Times back in 1994, wrung from the landscape of inland Provence.
" Mr. Marshall was initially reported to be supportive of the city's plans, but at the opening of his London exhibition he told Artnews that "the City of Big Shoulders has wrung every bit of value they could from the fruits of my labor.
Thousands of years before Italy became the world's silk center, emperors in eastern China had obsessed over the homegrown invention of silk, and are said to have wrung their hands over how to keep the craft secret from ever-encroaching Western powers.
It was my stray observation that he could probably sustain himself on emotionally wrung-out roles for as long as he wanted, which had caused Phoenix to recoil in his seat like he was Tony Montana, about to unload on an incompetent underling.
"It was quite nerve-racking," said Scott, who added that he was so wrung out at the end of each day that he would stay back at the hotel and soak in an Epsom salt bath while Dustin ventured out for dinner.
So when something kind of perfect happens on a sports field — such as that Julian Edelman catch — we know it's been wrung from a deluge of alternative scenarios where the ball gets dropped, the runner gets tripped up, or the referee makes a boneheaded call.
But just as you thing he's wrung all of the pleasure, the final third strips the skittering percussion to allow a heavily reverbed snippet of a folk pop vocal to ring out like an organ in a cathedral, sunlight streaming through the stained glass.
This chamber of the heart receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the rest of the body, using a rather strenuous twisting and unspooling motion, as if the ventricle were a sponge being wrung out before springing back into shape.
Obviously we aren't headed to a time when we sleep on the floor of a tent under hand-wrung felt blankets (except at Burning Man), but we are headed to a future where we may own and carry less while depending on the environment to provide more.
I've wrung my hands a lot writing this blog and grappling with this fact: Surely every Jay Z beat Wayne demolished, every random Atlanta rap hit he twisted in his own way deserves some sort of commentary about the momentousness of Wayne choosing to tackle those beats.
That limited supply of talent is being wrung dry, by a crush of demand from some of the biggest companies in the world: Google, Apple, Intel, Uber, Tesla, Toyota, Ford, BMW, Volvo, Nissan, Lyft, Ford, General Motors, Baidu (the Google of China), Honda, and plenty of others.
Considering that only last year Mayor Emanuel and Commissioner Kelly dedicated another mural I designed downtown for which I was asked to accept one dollar, you could say the City of Big Shoulders has wrung every bit of value they could from the fruits of my labor.
Kidman is almost unrecognizable as Erin Bell, an LAPD detective with a terribly dark past that has wrung her ragged at the bottom of a bottle — until a totem from that past resurfaces, causing Erin to spiral even further as she desperately tries to rectify her past mistakes.
But with the explosion of the non-dairy market—sales of milk-free substitutes skyrocketed a remarkable 61 percent over the past five years—the industry has taken to calling all kinds of liquids "milk," from those expressed from a flax seed to those wrung from a macadamia nut.
In this case, the warm, humid summer air was continuously wrung out like a sponge, high in the mountains to help create this effect -- and some areas felt it to the tune of more than a dozen inches of rain in a mere two hours, according to NHK.
I'm not saying that the new joint from Black Shape of Nexus is necessarily on par with Rumors (though I think it could be a contender!), but the kind of jarring, sludgy, atmospheric doom that these Germans have wrung from their miserable souls is definitely worth a listen.
On Sunday, the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, singing the role in a concert performance of the opera with the conductor Harry Bicket and his English Concert chamber orchestra, held Carnegie Hall's audience in thrall for nearly nine minutes as she wrung every bit of emotion from this music.
"Man From Nebraska," which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in drama but is only now receiving its New York premiere, belongs to a genre that would seem to have been wrung dry by 20th-century fiction writers, usually male, ranging from Sinclair Lewis to Saul Bellow.
The Zeppelin knot, formed from two loops laid on top of each other, gets its strength from countable topological properties, said Patil: lots of rope crossings that tend to twist each other in opposite directions, like a towel being wrung out, and circulate in opposite directions to create friction.
Sitting in a dark theater in North Carolina, he wrung wrenching noise out a guitar and a smattering of electronics, the louder moments of which caused both the chair I was on and the flesh and bones surrounding my sternum to vibrate uncontrollably—an experience as unsettling as it was moving.
What Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer allegedly wrung out of his Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell in this agreement was an assurance that the Senate would take up legislation to deal with DACA -- the program that allows people brought to the country illegally as children to remain -- in the very near future.
As a survivor and an anti-rape activist, too often I leave these movies feeling wrung out, triggered, and frustrated — at the filmmaker's fixation on making audiences and victims relive the trauma of sexual violence over and over again, and failure to seize opportunities to help viewers understand their power to make change.
But afraid of his wrath, confused by their base, and hopeful that some good can still be wrung out of this crisis, they talk themselves, daily, into small acts of cowardice and silence, and then they find themselves committing big ones, as they are too invested, too culpable, to change their tune now.
Medicaid is a much more efficient form of insurance than private care, so there's not much waste to be wrung from it: Unlike a block grant, which just gives states a big lump of cash to spend as they will, a per capita cap is at least somewhat responsive to changes in Medicaid enrollment.
After bogging itself down with a heavy push into content creation and marketing, a confusing set of competing cameras at the low end of its own camera lineup, and unchecked growth, the camera company pulled itself out of the red and wrung $21 million in profit out of $2200 million worth of quarterly revenue.
In exchange for voting to reopen the government, Democrats wrung a promise from Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, to bring a legislative fix for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)—an Obama-era executive action that shielded hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to America as children from deportation—up for a vote.
The Klan hoped the attacks would derail the movement -- the marches had wrung concessions from local leaders and the state had begun integrating schools days before the bombing -- but historians contend the church bombing marked a turning point in the civil rights movement and contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
You'd think, given the narrow range of her material and motifs, that the paintings would look like the same thing over and over, but it's striking how much variation can be wrung out of a subtle shift in color, or a different spacing between the parallel lines, or even the thickness of the lines.
He had warmed over the dead gods of the months and he had written about wasps a couple of times, wrung some wonder from contemplating their world of insectual intent—the papery nests, the cells of mathematical perfection, the nurses and the workers, the grubs that waited for transformation behind their silken doors, their black eyes perfectly visible. . . .
This week, Uber will argue that it has changed in the 10 months since Dara Khosrowshahi took over as C.E.O. More from Adam Satariano of the NYT: The case before Westminster Magistrates' Court has ramifications far beyond London, and, given changes the city has already wrung from Uber, it could embolden others grappling with how to regulate ride-sharing services.
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He also referenced the enormous mural he completed last year on the west exterior wall of the Cultural Center: "Considering that only last year Mayor Emanuel and Commissioner Kelly dedicated another mural I designed downtown for which I was asked to accept one dollar, you could say the City of Big Shoulders has wrung every bit of value they could from the fruits of my labor," he said.
The video montage leaves me as wrung out as an old dish rag: lynchings; Biggie Smalls spitting his flow on a neighborhood sidewalk; a young Angela Davis smiling; breathtakingly vicious police assaults on black men, women, and children; Miles Davis veiled behind dark glasses; Drake performing on a stage; dancers from the Harlem ballroom scene mercilessly death-dropping; Odell Beckham Jr. displaying his outsized athleticism; a black woman sweating and hollering in her church; heterosexual couples grinding on a dance floor; the farcical eyewitness accounts that have become internet memes; more police savagery; an alien monster ravaging a city as armed forces throw all their military ordinance at it; a solar flare erupting from the sun's surface.

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