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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
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Verb
  • The deal was negotiated by Piantedosi and Manager of Acquisitions and Sales Rachel White on behalf of Vertical and by CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The Obama Administration secretly negotiated the Iran nuclear deal without consulting GCC capitals.
    Firas Maksad, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Sonar revealed ancient relics along the sea floor, including a series of colossal structures standing 20 feet high and arranged in rows, as well as several anchors and amphora.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But Bradley’s not super bothered, because her informant has messaged her and arranged a meeting in Central Park.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The twilight of empire was also a time of conspiracy theories about international Jewish cabals, said to manipulate power through money and shadowy networks in order to rule the world.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Wood said that the Google is manipulating the market in a way that is antithetical to free market competition.
    Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Wangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wangle. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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