Thesaurus results for WRESTLED

wrestled

verb

past tense of wrestle

as in fought

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 wrestled Hinduism itself has long wrestled with the question of how many gods there are, and different answers have been proposed throughout its history, but none of those answers necessarily invalidates the others. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 County officials — caught between a state legislative mandate to cooperate with ICE, a national mass deportation push that was filling their jail with detainees and a vocal electorate that demanded change — wrestled with how to respond. — Mario Ariza, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2026 There’s one anecdote in the cookbook’s foreword that Tiedemann wrestled with sharing. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026 When Pretti tried to help the woman, the agents turned on him and wrestled him to the ground. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026 Alex appeared to move to help her when officers pepper-sprayed him and wrestled him to the ground. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026 For many years, scientists wrestled with whether moderate consumption of alcohol, particularly red wine, was part of this equation. — Adam Cohen, Oklahoman, 25 Aug. 2026 As a man who’s wrestled with his own demons, pianist Brad Mehldau believes that an artist’s work should be evaluated on its own terms, separate from its creator. — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026 Ross's father had played basketball and wrestled in high school. — Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

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The latest reminder came 42 minutes into Thursday’s hearing in a Louisiana district court in which more than 30 athletes fought to be included within the NCAA rule change that effectively gave every athlete five years to play five seasons.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
In an address late Thursday, Milei reasserted Argentina’s claim to the islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, which the United Kingdom has controlled since 1833 and over which the two countries fought a war in the early 1980s.

— Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of fought

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OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said.

— Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
Women seeking political office have long grappled with double standards around the demands of motherhood, with many waiting to seek office once their children were grown.

— Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of grappled

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Madden tussled with the co-op, at one point unsuccessfully trying to buy the fourth-floor apartment to make a duplex of her own.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
Another fight broke out at a Chicago baseball game, as fans tussled during the eighth inning of the series finale between the New York Mets and the White Sox at Rate Field on Sunday.

— Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of tussled

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Golden battled injuries, but his rookie year fell well short of everyone’s expectations anyway.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Firefighters in South Fulton battled a large fire at a warehouse complex near Union City, with a blaze that reached two-alarm status Sunday but was contained within a few hours.

— Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of battled

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Cavan rushed to aid his brother and scuffled with Miami midfielder Yannick Bright.

— Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Some pushed against barricades and scuffled with police, who responded by firing tear gas rounds, using water cannon and beating them with batons, TV footage showed.

— Reuters, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2026

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