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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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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

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

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

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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