wrangling

verb

present participle of wrangle
as in bickering
to express different opinions about something often angrily a town meeting at which local residents wrangled for hours about property taxes

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Recent Examples of wrangling As the quartet’s planning proceeds, complete with a Lego model of the bank premises, Hamza’s wrangling for a larger share of the haul is relentless. — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026 There was more than enough to do and most importantly no car seat wrangling required. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026 Perhaps counterintuitively, 40 years of wrangling point not toward banning surrogacy, but to the steps needed to regulate it. — Arthur L. Caplan, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026 After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, the CPUC voted unanimously to approve two settlement agreements with Charter that allow the merger to move forward. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Wireless charge pad Wireless charge pads are convenient devices that eliminate the hassle of wrangling power cords. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026 Once again, Overton was in the middle of wrangling between the White House and HHS. — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 Unfortunately, wrangling woodland creatures is completely different than ghost hunting, something Kesha is a pro at. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 July 2026 Online retailers, travel companies, and publishers, which spent decades wrangling with Google over how to get paid for their websites, now face the same challenge as LLMs scrape their content. — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrangling
  1. bickering
  2. arguing
  3. fighting
  4. quarreling
Verb
  • There’s striker Josie Gordon, bickering twin sisters Siobhan and Niamh, glove-shunning goalie Katie ‘Boots’ Quinn and couple Maddie and Margy.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Back at the base, the team is still bickering with the other troopers.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of bickering
Verb
  • Milei has rejected calls for government intervention, arguing that unpaid debts are a private matter between borrowers and lenders rather than a symptom of wider economic distress.
    — Débora Rey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Reddington said his first priority is arguing later this month that a retrial would violate Clancy's constitutional protection against double jeopardy because the mistrial was declared over the defense's objection.
    — Bryan Llenas , Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of arguing
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  • Muslim leaders and community members, in turn, told the USA TODAY Network they’re left fighting to defend their faith and warning the nation that its founding principles are at stake.
    — BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • But Verstappen had enough to pull clear in the last few laps and grab third, with the McLaren drivers slowed fighting amongst themselves.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of fighting
Verb
  • In another clip, a student records himself quarreling with a teacher asking him to take out his notes.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Now might not seem the moment for Democrats to be quarrelling, but many of them believe that the only way to build the Party back up is to remake it.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Definition of quarreling

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“Wrangling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrangling. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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