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The radical wing of the party is trying to wrest control from the moderates.wrest = take (with effort)
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He wrested the knife from her hands.wrested = took by force
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I'm trying to wrest a meaning from the old text.wrest = obtain with effort
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They wrested power from the old government.wrested = took
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They had been given to me by the bishop, and I was still trying to wrest meaning from them. (source)wrest = obtain with difficult effort
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He managed to cling to the oars, and with effort wrested them back to their places. (source)wrested = obtained with difficult effort
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One of the little girls managed to wrest the banana roadster away from Peter Sinkowitz. (source)wrest = take (with effort)
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All brutality and reprimand were wrested from her face. (source)wrested = taken
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Her arms still ached from wresting the heavy ears from the stalks, row after row, hour after hour.† (source)
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Your system is a legal civil war, where men gang up on one another and struggle for possession of the law, which they use as a club over rivals, till another gang wrests it from their clutch and clubs them with it in their turn, all of them clamoring protestations of service to an unnamed public's unspecified good.† (source)
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Each watched and waited for an opportunity to wrest control from her, keeping a none-too-friendly eye on the other families in case they happened to make a move first. (source)wrest = take with force
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But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily. (source)wrested = obtained with effort
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"That one, brother, he bite," she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot.† (source)
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Hear my threat: Since Phoebus wrests Chryseis from my arms, In mine own ship, and with mine own good crew, Her I send forth; and, in her stead, I mean, Ev'n from thy tent, myself, to bear thy prize, The fair Briseis; that henceforth thou know How far I am thy master; and that, taught By thine example, others too may fear To rival me, and brave me to my face.† (source)
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He tried to wrest the key from Catherine's grasp, and for safety she flung it into the hottest part of the fire; whereupon Mr. Edgar was taken with a nervous trembling, and his countenance grew deadly pale. (source)wrest = take with force
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The fellow took another step toward the barber and wrested one of the scissors from his hand. (source)wrested = took by force
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