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
There are so many great women wrestling in AEW right now, and there are such intense rivalries.
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Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Video from the scene shows an agent wrestling a suspect to the ground and striking him multiple times as bystanders shouted profanity and tried to intervene, with one person attempting to pull an agent away.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Nip that sentiment in the bud by taking them out the following August for a few days of hauling fertilizer, picking rocks, wrestling farm implements, and driving tractors over unseen wasp nests.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
The most surprising ghost story of the season isn’t horror at all, but rather the story of one of America’s great artists wrestling spirits and trying to contain them on a cassette, which serves as its own kind of sacred vessel.
—Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
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Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Video from the scene shows an agent wrestling a suspect to the ground and striking him multiple times as bystanders shouted profanity and tried to intervene, with one person attempting to pull an agent away.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Nip that sentiment in the bud by taking them out the following August for a few days of hauling fertilizer, picking rocks, wrestling farm implements, and driving tractors over unseen wasp nests.
—The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
The most surprising ghost story of the season isn’t horror at all, but rather the story of one of America’s great artists wrestling spirits and trying to contain them on a cassette, which serves as its own kind of sacred vessel.
—Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrestling
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Barton gave the jury the impression of a man prepared to go into daily combat on numerous fronts, constantly fighting one battle after another, in service of his principles.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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The Justice Department under him was not really interested in fighting crime.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Now, agencies, landowners and everyday people are grappling with what that means and looking to rebuild a more holistic fire culture.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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One being cognitive, which his son is grappling with, and, as a parent, dealing with how to navigate work and how to protect a child that is going to have needs for the rest of his life.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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McGuane also reminded me that Hemingway was, to put it politely, a complicated personality, a domineering figure prone to brawling, affairs, and cask-strength egoism.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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The two superstars immediately began brawling.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The courtroom tussling has some juice this week.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Things got testy with the Mammoth jamming away at Korpisalo after the whistle and Nikita Zadorov took issue with it, tussling with Brandon Tanev.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Wrestling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestling. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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