angling
Example Sentences
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The Kremlin, which didn’t respond to several requests for comment for this article, has been angling for permanent access to Port Sudan for five years.
Virtually every Wall Street player is angling to get a piece of the action, from banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley to traditional asset managers such as BlackRock.
He’s invited her to coffee not as father and daughter, but as a has-been angling to cast Nora as the lead of his next film, which he claims he’s written for her.
From Los Angeles Times
Today, it was angling to pass the $5 trillion mark, but the chip maker had to settle for $4.89 trillion at the close.
From Barron's
The flare-up was part of a pattern of skirmishes and demands that analysts say indicates Hamas is angling to keep a seat at the table in postwar Gaza.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
