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Baldoni denied wrongdoing and accused Lively of concocting false allegations as part of an effort to wrest creative control of the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Trump's Republican Party faces a stern test at upcoming midterm elections in November, with Democrats seeking to wrest control of both houses of Congress.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

But a quick flurry of wickets for Notts helped them wrest back control and take the game to a thrilling final over in which Surrey needed 12 to win.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

This column has long maintained that a major operation to wrest control of the Persian Gulf would be recommitting to a strategic past that accorded excessive primacy to the Gulf and its oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Then I think of the spile and wrest it from the tree trunk.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

From here, much of the novel dwells on Günter’s terror and paralysis as the Nazi Party wrests control of Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Rozario’s mother holds onto him protectively, then wrests the scissors away.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

Indeed, Fish wrests us from any post-intermission relaxation with a reworked dream ballet sequence that begins in heavy-metal mode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

The sculptor wrests the rugged block from the rocky ribs of his mother earth;—the tailor clips the implicated “long hogs”11.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various

Co-star Cynthia Erivo promptly wrested the stunned actress away from Mr Wen, who was seen being escorted out of the event by security officers.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

The move came after the Dutch government wrested control of the company from its Chinese owner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Today, Google still dominates and “No existing rival has wrested market share from Google,” he said in his opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025

It is packaged and commodified, wrested from its continuity with the world and from its intimate relation to the body.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

Torak wrested one hand free and dragged his arm away.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

And yet his drive, his ambition, his hunger for glory were essential to the enterprise of wresting the colonies from the grip of distant overlords.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026

I wrote at the time that the trade peace was fragile: “Trump is at liberty to threaten higher tariffs again for any reason,” such as wresting Greenland from Denmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

The opening exchanges were not to script but Northampton's internationals were crucial in wresting back momentum.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025

Utilizing an army of trans and nonbinary performers who he describes as “gender poets,” Preciado celebrates the fluidity of gender itself, wresting it away from a mainstream framework.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2023

One would hold back the overgrowth, and the rest would reach in for tomatoes, wresting the fruit from the stems.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt