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  • v  exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
  • v  be employed
  • v  have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
  • v  perform as expected when applied
  • v  shape, form, or improve a material
  • v  give a workout to
  • v  proceed along a path
  • v  operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
  • v  proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
  • v  move in an agitated manner
  • v  cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
  • v  cause to work
  • v  prepare for crops
  • v  behave in a certain way when handled
  • v  have and exert influence or effect
  • v  operate in or through
  • v  cause to operate or function
  • v  provoke or excite
  • v  gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
  • v  make something, usually for a specific function
  • v  move into or onto
  • v  make uniform
  • v  use or manipulate to one's advantage
  • v  find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
  • v  cause to undergo fermentation
  • v  go sour or spoil
  • v  arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
  • s  shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
    the wrought silver bracelet

  • Since then, international audiences have glimpsed Zhang in Peacock, a finely wrought coming-of-age tale that captured top honors at this year's Berlin Film Festival, and Seven .
  • Remarkably, he wrought deep changes mainly without changing laws; his tools were budgetary finesse, regulatory manipulation and personnel shifts.
  • Chen Kaiges stately, volcanic epic was one of the first Mainland films to acknowledge that damage wrought by Maoism.
News & Articles

  • Weekly Poem: 'I Go Back to May 1937'
    By Sharon Olds, read by John Lithgow Watch Video I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head, I see my mother with a few light books at her hip standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks, the wrought-iron gate still open behind her, its sword-tips aglow in ...
    June 24, 2013 - The Online NewsHour
  • MLS: Union rock Red Bulls 3-0
    CHESTER - Facing a two-year drought against their rivals to the north and sensing the opportunity wrought by a long season, the Union knew the stakes for Sunday's game against New York. They delivered on it in emphatic fashion. A pair of goals by Conor Casey in the 7th and 64th minutes and a questionable red card to New York's Lloyd Sam in the first half led to a 3-0 win for the Union over their ...
    June 24, 2013 - The Mercury
  • Woody Woodburn: What Murphy's Law hath wrought
    Seven years ago, after a successful 150-year run, Western Union sent the last telegram in U.S. history. The first telegram, sent by Samuel Morse, famously read: “What hath God wrought?”
    June 22, 2013 - Ventura County Star
Quotes

  • Sonia Sotomayor in Los Angeles Times
    Your childhood environment shapes your perceptions, your character, your sense of values,says Sotomayor, who was appointed to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in October. "To the extent that I lived in an environment wrought with...
  • Joyce Kennard in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    But the court's seven justices indicated a wariness to override what Associate Justice Joyce Kennard called the people's "very, very broad, well-wrought" authority to amend the state's governing framework at the ballot box.
  • Pope Benedict XVI in CNN
    The service's Bible reading's "vivid description of the destruction wrought by war echoes the personal experiences of so many people in this country amid the terrible ravages of the civil war," Benedict said in the Mass, which was broadcast by...

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