tussle

In light of the legal tussle with California, some have encouraged David Ellison to ditch Paramount’s Hollywood headquarters in favor of Tennessee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The other piece of this is that for a while, there was this tussle between lower courts and the Supreme Court.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

OpenAI won its legal tussle with its former backer Elon Musk on Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

That became the center of a legal tussle after the city sued for its restoration and some panels have been restored, pending a court decision.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

He was strangely suited to the tussle of lawmaking, calm inside the maelstrom, accustomed to being an outsider, taking defeats in his easy Hawaiian stride.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Bessent has become one of Trump’s most trusted advisers after previous tussles with other Trump allies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Before Robby and Al-Hashimi engage in any real ideological tussles, though, she commits the cardinal sin of suggesting they change the trauma center’s nickname to something else.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta has acted as the face of California’s legal battles against the federal government while Newsom has generally maintained a distance from the back-and-forth court tussles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

The challenge for England now is to get on the right side of these tussles.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024

Campion and Chervil were kept busy taking out endurance patrols, and tussles and training fights were organized at morning silflay.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Zwane tussled with Roberto Alvarado, with the Mexican going to ground holding his head.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

In 2025, the US president went as far as visiting the Fed's under-renovation headquarters, where he verbally tussled with Powell as the two toured the site.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

In 2017, it tussled about management succession with activist investor Christopher Hohn’s TCI Fund Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

After stopping at the amenities table for fresh water, towels and doggie sunscreen, Dug tussled with another golden retriever, Bubbles, who was wearing a Goyard collar from Paris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

I tussled with her as she tried to calm me down, to move me away from the brazier, lest in my frenzy I should tip it over.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

His attentiveness will be closely watched in the Maduro case, as tussling between the defense and prosecution has already threatened to draw out proceedings.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

Detroit has spent the season griping with referees, tussling with opponents and piling up 66 technicals, by far the highest number in the league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

In Colorado, the industry is tussling over a first of its kind law to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

In “The Climb,” there is a moment where Covino and Marvin briefly wrestle, a ludicrous sight of two grown men tussling on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

I didn’t want to drag things out none by tussling.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis