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
Sandoval seemingly tries to wrestle the phone from her before her father tries to intervene and pulls Sandoval off of her.
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Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Anyone who's wrestled a four-wheel carry-on across cobblestone streets knows exactly why that matters.
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Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
Not all the way R&B, not definitively Americana, and certainly not country, Gilfillian creates his own sonic lane by pairing warm, expansive arrangements with a Southern tinge and powerful lyrics that wrestle weightier, universal truths about visceral emotions.
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Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
26 June 2026
The Senate is now wrestling with how students — and teachers — might use artificial intelligence in the classroom.
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Staff,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2026
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Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
Anyone who's wrestled a four-wheel carry-on across cobblestone streets knows exactly why that matters.
—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
Not all the way R&B, not definitively Americana, and certainly not country, Gilfillian creates his own sonic lane by pairing warm, expansive arrangements with a Southern tinge and powerful lyrics that wrestle weightier, universal truths about visceral emotions.
—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
26 June 2026
The Senate is now wrestling with how students — and teachers — might use artificial intelligence in the classroom.
—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2026
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Utah restricted fireworks and declared a state of emergency Friday ahead of July Fourth celebrations as the United States' largest wildfire expanded its reach across more tinder-dry forest, as crews rush to fight new blazes in the arid state.
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Plata was fighting a pretty strong German defense and a hold on his jersey to get up there.
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Reading scores among high school seniors are at their lowest in decades, according to federal testing data, while schools across the country are grappling with how to respond to waning attention spans and artificial intelligence.
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Chatrie and the Supreme Court For decades, the court has grappled with law enforcement’s use of technologies to track the location of people or things.
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“Wrestle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestle. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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