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Recent Examples of wangle The micro-budget indie (Sundance 2025) about a farm community recovering from wildfires had wangled a permit to shoot during the Actors Strike. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025 For years, Jann Wenner, the editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, wangled special press plates for his car which allowed him to park where most others couldn’t. Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 One of Trump’s conditions for supporting Ukraine’s independence and ending the war is to wangle an earth minerals deal out of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2025 After wangling her way into the jury-deliberation room by getting Lonnie the sexist podcaster disqualified, her questions about the weapon, motive, and witnesses’ testimony puncture hole after hole in the DA’s case against Delia. Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024 Then, the Yankees wangled and wooed it away from the Spanish and Mexicans. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 To wangle a slice of the $40 billion Saudi Arabia plans to invest in Africa. Matthew T. Page, TIME, 10 May 2024 The production has managed to wangle an imposing location for the Visitor’s antics to unfold: one of those huge London statement homes made almost entirely of glass, like a sort of gigantic Cubist fishbowl. Catherine Bray, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024 Through that connection, Marlinspike wangled a meeting with WhatsApp’s cofounder Brian Acton. Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 July 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wangle
Verb
  • The White House has not yet negotiated lower prices on IVF drugs from other manufacturers.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The only long-term solution — in my view — is a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank whose borders are negotiated with Israel.
    Thomas L. Friedman, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a feat of logistics, the production miraculously arranged the shooting schedule so that every principal actor’s final scene on the show was also their last day of filming — something the Duffers have been freshly reliving again and again in the edit bay.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • However, for years, police suspected that Charles arranged the murder of Markel.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Because there’s no route concept here, no trying to manipulate a defense with a quarterback’s eyes, or with misdirection, or by flooding a zone.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • There’s been no improvement in their real economy despite a stock market that seems manipulated higher, a la 2016.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Wangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wangle. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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