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wrangle

[rang-guhl] / ˈræŋ gəl /




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I wrangle her into those tights and leotard because I will always believe dance gives me the best life lessons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Colourful details about the private lives of the brawling billionaires have trickled out in the run-up to trial as attorneys wrangle over the evidence and testimony that should and shouldn't be shared with the jury.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

A few years before the Cybercab applications, Unibev had managed to wrangle another trademark out from under Tesla for a novelty beverage called Teslaquila.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

Instead, he talked about world population and the task of the world’s scythes, if not to level it, then to wrangle it to a reasonable ratio.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

That range won over producer Jon Buscema, her primary collaborator who wrangles her mix of Cat Power folk confessionals, tripped-out drum loops and electroshocked rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Shein’s valuation has declined sharply since hitting $100 billion in 2022, as it wrangles with increasing competition from rivals such as Temu and persistent uncertainty from escalating trade restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Somehow he wrangles a group of five surly boys until one of their rich fathers comes through and whisks away four.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024

The change in rules happens as Japan wrangles with its long-standing pacifist stance.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

Frau Büchner wrangles impossible harmonies from our voices.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Meanwhile, wind and solar developers have wrangled with mounting local opposition to their projects and the transmission lines needed to connect them to power users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Yet as I wrangled them into my closet, something kept nagging at me like a pebble in an insole: Bernie Sanders’ eye-rolling dismissal outside the Senate elevator.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

“She did,” he called from a distance, as he wrangled one of their two dogs, Chicken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

He knew he had gotten me in trouble with Mom and so he quickly wrangled a construction job in West Virginia for a couple days of paid work.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

The club still insists it is innocent of the financial rule-breaking charges first brought against it by the Premier League in 2023, and can appeal, so the legal wrangling is far from over.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Additional land wrangling remained after the museum’s approval.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The “Ted Lasso” writers aren’t entirely unaware of the most obvious concerns that come with tasking Ted with wrangling a team of disparate female personalities.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

Volkswagen’s supervisory board had initially rejected Blume’s plan at a meeting in July, triggering two months of high-profile wrangling between the CEO’s team, worker representatives and Lower Saxony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Charlie and Zooey got caught up wrangling over the color palette and only stopped when Diego suggested a combination of colors.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson


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