Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
wring , v. - a wringer. See
Wringer , 2.
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- verb Present participle of
wring .
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Examples
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The hand-wringing is over the possibility that scientific questions could be foreclosed by how people react when someone takes a particular position on a scientific issue.
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Anyone can fret to the end of time and nothing advances because of it, making something an important issue by addressing it beyond the mere hand wringing is on the path to actually doing something about it.
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You may not agree with that being a priority, but that's what all of the "hand wringing" is about.
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The hand-wringing is over the possibility that scientific questions could be foreclosed by how people react when someone takes a particular position on a scientific issue.
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Anyone can fret to the end of time and nothing advances because of it, making something an important issue by addressing it beyond the mere hand wringing is on the path to actually doing something about it.
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It is more likely then that an officer will get seriously injured or killed and the tables will turn, alot of hand-wringing from the same ACPO ranks that clipped our wings in the first place, and a reinstatement of the equipment and possibly more besides.
Be Carefull What You Wish For « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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No amount of earnest hand-wringing is going to legitimise Olympic censorship
Archive 2008-04-06 2008
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No amount of earnest hand-wringing is going to legitimise Olympic censorship
Olympic Censorship 2008
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Deep inside they know that all of this hand-wringing is merely for the cameras …
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Lost in all of the recent hand-wringing is the fact that local content has been going away for years in the newspaper biz.
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