WRESTLED (WITH) Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

wrestled (with)

verb

past tense of wrestle (with)

as in contemplated

to give serious and careful thought to I've been wrestling with the idea of switching careers for quite some time

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Nvidia and other chipmakers fell more than 3% as investors contemplated the possibility that frontier labs could deliberately slow model development, and thus the massive infrastructure buildout thus far designed to support it.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
At the southern tip of Key Biscayne, where Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic meet, developers had contemplated ambitious projects for what is now Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of contemplated

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Virginia’s 5th is not normally considered a competitive district.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
The location is along the Burke-Gilman trail next to Lake Union, and is considered the trail’s access point for runners and bikers.

— Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of considered

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For more than a year, industry stakeholders in Georgia and the rest of the country have pondered how public policy could help jolt the film industry in the United States.

— Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Many have pondered why Mexicans and Mexican Americans have such an affinity for those blokes from across the pond.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of pondered

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New discoveries at an ancient site in Greece are revealing the remains of a sprawling royal complex where young Macedonians studied and trained — offering new clues about a school tied to one of history's most legendary rulers.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Researchers at England’s Oxford University studied every Olympics between 1960 and 2016 and found that every single one of them went over budget, by an average of roughly 150% to 170%.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of studied

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Hot on the heels of his Golden Eye award ceremony on Saturday night, John Turturro entertained another crowd at a Zurich Film Festival masterclass on Sunday.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026
Your phone already knows how to keep you home and entertained for hours.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of entertained

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The article went viral, garnering pushback from the LGBT community over how it was covered and more attention to the LGBT bar itself from conservative pundits, who questioned why the bar still had a mask mandate.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026
That anyone who questioned this restriction was marginalized and excluded and actually thrown out of society.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of questioned

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Each item is individually photographed, tested, and weighed, with the information recorded as part of the customer’s inventory.

— Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
However, market moves were kept in check as traders also weighed the latest employment data out of ADP.

— Fred Imbert, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

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