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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as in to contemplate
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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Recent Examples of wrestle
Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Several financial groups are wrestling with bad loans, raising worries on Wall Street of more to come.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
This practice has led some US lawmakers to push for repealing these authorizations, as Congress looks to wrestle back some authority over war powers and foreign policy.
—Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Parker’s series starts out with too much bellowing and yelling along with hazing and bullying but loosens up and broadens out to peer into the lives of other recruits who are wrestling with demons and sometimes each other.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
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Williams was fined $11,593 for unnecessary roughness (away from the play) for grabbing hold of Smith’s and trying to wrestle him to the ground.
—Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Several financial groups are wrestling with bad loans, raising worries on Wall Street of more to come.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
This practice has led some US lawmakers to push for repealing these authorizations, as Congress looks to wrestle back some authority over war powers and foreign policy.
—Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Parker’s series starts out with too much bellowing and yelling along with hazing and bullying but loosens up and broadens out to peer into the lives of other recruits who are wrestling with demons and sometimes each other.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Wrestle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestle. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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