wrestle
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The shift at Michigan, among the nation’s largest and best-known public universities, comes as schools wrestle with grade inflation and the need for remedial instruction for freshmen ill-prepared for college-level classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"We've had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things, like how could something like this even happen? Let alone disguised as a fight for women."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
In September 2023, Maduro - then still president - sent 11,000 soldiers to storm and wrestle back control of the jail.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Citizens go about their days, anxieties bleeding into their behaviors, trying to wrestle some control from a world that offers them none.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Maddie cried, and managed to wrestle the umbrella inside.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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The aspect that he says he wrestles with is how much higher rates would harm the economy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Jason Parham: A major theme in the film wrestles with what it means to find your place at home when you return.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2026
Hellerstein, an Orthodox Jew, has said that he schedules sentencing hearings for Fridays so he has all of the Sabbath to reflect on his decisions—and wrestles with them even afterward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
While the government wrestles with provision for children, many families continue to struggle.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
Since he looks like he wrestles alligators for fun, it’s very effective.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the "black hole information paradox."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Schatz pointed out that Rubio had moved all foreign aid under the State Department and had just wrestled some of that money away from the OMB to respond to an Ebola outbreak.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
We both wrestled with trying to find agency inside of moments in our adult lives that felt like abandonment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
It was painful to watch him at points last year, as he wrestled with the confusion created by his lack of pace.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
She went out looking for me in the neighborhood and wrestled my backpack away from that little angry dog.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
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The Lumen Technologies president and CFO was wrestling with a procurement problem and wanted input from the company’s chief revenue, technology and marketing officers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
We are also wrestling with a difficult question about our estate plan.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The bout was billed as a classic grappler versus striker match-up, with Makhachev's signature wrestling providing the backbone for his dominant run in the UFC.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Funk’s involvement in wrestling also expanded into promotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The week before the pneumonia, Rajesh had received news of a strikingly successful performance in his college exams and—elated—had vanished on a two-night excursion, supposedly “exercising” at a wrestling camp.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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