wangle

Clearly, the few evolutionary changes the domestic cat has made have been the right ones to wangle their way into people's hearts and homes.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023

Even when I was filming “Clifford,” I managed to somehow wangle my way into getting onto a flight and going back for three days of Glastonbury, and I was just floating.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Once he tried to wangle a legitimate PhD from the University of Manchester.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020

At six, he got his first library card from the Brooklyn Public Library; he would eventually wangle a second one from the neighbouring borough of Queens, doubling his weekly intake.

From Nature ● Jan. 27, 2020

“Order of Merlin, Second Class, I’d say. First Class, if I can wangle it!”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

In the days just before World War I, the pair wangles an invitation to a stately castle, hoping to vindicate a cook suspected in the death of an earlier guest there.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2017

He abandons an academia-bound path, and, despite his “father’s odor among the old guard,” wangles a job offer from a shadowy HQ-linked businessman.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2015

When Scotty wangles an audience with the all-powerful Bennie in Bennie’s New York office, he arrives armed with a fish that he caught in the East River.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2010

Tartuffe in Tartuffe by Molière Probably the most famous hypocrite in literature, Tartuffe is an impoverished conman who wangles his way into the home of the well-to-do Orgon.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2010

He was always finding out little wangles that he wasn't supposed to see.

From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins

Technically, she wasn’t old enough to work with the horses at the track, but Crump wangled her way in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Two years before, Caligiuri had wangled an invitation to an exclusive party thrown for George Michael in the Hollywood hills.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023

He wrote op-eds for major newspapers and wangled summonses from presidents to brief them on dealing with the Soviet Union and other world issues.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2021

A story by one Chicago Tribune reporter who wangled his way to Nagasaki wasn’t just censored but destroyed.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2020

With Everest, the most difficult of the septet, already taken care of, Hall and Ball wangled backing from a big electrical utility, Power Build, and were on their way.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

And well done for wangling a shift at Headingley.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2020

Still, her stepdad pushed Tiffany, recognising her talent and wangling her first paid gig.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2020

He made it to Borneo in 1984 by wangling a berth on an expedition to explore the Mulu caves, now one of the island’s tourist attractions.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2018

Mr. Dinkins added more cops on the streets — wangling a tax increase to do so — and more cadets in the police academy, who went on duty only after he left office.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2017

He's always right in there wangling for his own.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes