as in fighting
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 wrestling
Largely stepping back from wrestling in the early 2000s, Savage died of a sudden heart attack while driving in Florida, at just 58 years old, in May 2011.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
Some mourners were left wrestling with the split, including 24-year-old Lindsay Jones of Dallas.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
Much of season one involves ordinary scientists wrestling with weighty themes such as time, destiny, and the meaning of discovery.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
He is most famously known for his legendary feud with comedian Andy Kaufman in the 1980s, a storyline that brought wrestling to a mainstream national audience.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
Some mourners were left wrestling with the split, including 24-year-old Lindsay Jones of Dallas.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
Much of season one involves ordinary scientists wrestling with weighty themes such as time, destiny, and the meaning of discovery.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
He is most famously known for his legendary feud with comedian Andy Kaufman in the 1980s, a storyline that brought wrestling to a mainstream national audience.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrestling
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But instead of fighting my body and losing, now my body and I fight together against our enemy, anxiety.—
Jack Korngold,
Rolling Stone,
28 Sep. 2025
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Meghan and Harry might be fighting constantly over her Netflix show With Love, Meghan.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
28 Sep. 2025
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Reinvention and Identity For many athletes, leaving the game means grappling with identity.—
John Armwood III,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Shortly before the earnings release, Sweet sat down with Fortune’s Alyson Shontell, and elaborated on how Accenture is grappling with this transformation just as much as its clients.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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Sports could be dangerous even without brawling in UFC’s Octagon, an eight-sided cage.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Having a cyberarm might offset glitches in brawling attacks to encourage players to take more risk dice during a first fight.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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This could open up space for another Chelsea player to attack, but an arm in the air from the corner taker is usually a sign for Cucurella to trot back into the box, tussling with his defender and making a nuisance of himself on the way back.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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The unaccompanied minor change was made at least partially in response to a viral video that showed a group of teens tussling near a row of carnival games.—
Ryan Murphy,
IndyStar,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Wrestling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestling. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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