wrangle
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Congress is crying out for a dedicated White House ambassador—someone who can be trusted to speak for the president, to yea or nay ideas, to shuttle proposals, to wrangle rebels in line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is still in a wrangle with the taxman.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
He could either exploit the armada as leverage to wrangle a diplomatic deal or pull the trigger.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
As diplomats wrangle for a breakthrough in what has been Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II, Russia has continued to press forward with its assault, bombarding Ukraine daily.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Only Bram could wrangle a giant puffed-up marshmallow so neatly.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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
The group’s motto says it all: “As the cowboy wrangles cattle, we wrangle consciousness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
It would be another four years before the legal wrangles to finally break up the Beatles were complete.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
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
Frau Büchner wrangles impossible harmonies from our voices.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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
Inside the courtroom, Gonzalez Rogers showed a mix of humor and toughness as she wrangled battalions of dark-suited attorneys lined up against each other in the wood-paneled room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
“She did,” he called from a distance, as he wrangled one of their two dogs, Chicken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
Some hunted for drinks, others were wrangled by publicists to interviews and photo shoots with eager journalists.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
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
It's true that for years he has tried publicly to stay out of Labour internal wrangling, styling himself as a loyalist – which didn't always go down well.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The European Union on Friday unveils reforms of its carbon market, after fierce wrangling between countries, industry and activists over the pace of the bloc's climate push.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
We’re wrangling a lot of very needy creative egos.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Last month the Commerce Department blocked Anthropic from selling its state-of-the-art models abroad owing to national security concerns and it took weeks of wrangling to resolve this impasse.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Shorty emerges, wrangling an armload of fur coats.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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