as in to fight
to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery
the sisters wrestled on the floor over the last cookie
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Recent Examples of wrestle
While Whitney is wrestling with all this in California, the rest of MomTok has returned to their usual lives in Salt Lake City.
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
But the territory continues to wrestle with the impact of the National Security Law, which has raised censorship issues for some projects.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
Against Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion, his introduction allowed the Premier League leaders to wrestle back some control of the closing stages to secure wins.
—Art De Roché, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
And yet, for any translator who has spent real time wrestling with sentences rather than theories, there is no denying that compensation exists.
—Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
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Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
But the territory continues to wrestle with the impact of the National Security Law, which has raised censorship issues for some projects.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
Against Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion, his introduction allowed the Premier League leaders to wrestle back some control of the closing stages to secure wins.
—Art De Roché, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
And yet, for any translator who has spent real time wrestling with sentences rather than theories, there is no denying that compensation exists.
—Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
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Zelenskyy noted that providing interceptors was not enough to help fight drone attacks.—
SYLVIE CORBET,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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Pakistan denied targeting civilians, as fighting between the neighbors entered its third week.—
Abdul Qahar Afghan,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Inflation, despite declines over the past year, is still weighing heavily on consumers, who have been grappling with the cumulative effects of years of too-high inflation that began spiking during the pandemic recovery under former President Joe Biden.—
Zach Halaschak,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Mar. 2026
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The Federal Reserve must grapple today with how to weigh surging oil prices against shrinking payrolls in its first meeting since the Iran war began.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Wrestle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestle. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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