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- noun Plural form of
wrack .
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Examples
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Diarrhea: In the developing world, diarrhea wracks the thin bodies of tens of millions of children who have no access to diapers or plumbing ― and it kills between 1.6 and 2.5 million children every year.
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Zola wracks up the misery by having each chapter start on a positive note, and end with his heroine ever nearer destitution.
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He then takes a step back and adopts the defensive stance, as there was another person being violent towards him (now making two obvious ones, and five or six offering violent and threatening language directly behind her) he draws his baton and wracks it.
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Lipitor still wracks up $7.5 billion in annual sales, more than any other drug but only ranks seventh by popularity, with 51. 1million prescriptions last year, down from 75 million in 2005.
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Lipitor still wracks up $7.5 billion in annual sales, more than any other drug but only ranks seventh by popularity, with 51. 1million prescriptions last year, down from 75 million in 2005.
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And hay fever, let's not even discuss how it wracks the chest when an uncontrollable fit of sneezing sets in.
The Voice of My Body 2010
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Unfortunately, the "pod" devoted to movies and miniseries tends to grind the show to a halt — it might as well be called the HBO hour, because that's where HBO wracks up most of its gold these days — although at least this year we had the refreshing spontaneity of the real Temple Grandin in the house exulting over the multiple wins for her excellent HBO biopic.
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However, war and civil war wracks the Named Lands and House Li Tam has sailed into the southern ocean, following a hint that previous events are being orchestrated by a hidden power for their own, inscrutable ends.
Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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Lipitor still wracks up $7.5 billion in annual sales, more than any other drug but only ranks seventh by popularity, with 51. 1million prescriptions last year, down from 75 million in 2005.
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Lipitor still wracks up $7.5 billion in annual sales, more than any other drug but only ranks seventh by popularity, with 51. 1million prescriptions last year, down from 75 million in 2005.
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