wrangle

He could either exploit the armada as leverage to wrangle a diplomatic deal or pull the trigger.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

That email doesn't specify what "matter" he's referring to, but since 2009, Stern, Epstein, and Sarah Ferguson had been engaged in a long and painful wrangle about her acute financial troubles.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

She needs to figure out how to wrangle it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

But Messrs. Smith and Delich make for persuasive antagonists, even if one does want to point out, as they wrangle, that there are bigger things around to be concerned about.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

But he found the process “distinctly unpleasant”— especially following a prolonged and ultimately fruitless wrangle with the patent office a few years later over his methods for producing radioactive isotopes.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The legal wrangles and family considerations added extra complications to the divorce, and celebrity lawyer Chris Melcher told BBC News the settlement had taken an unusually long time.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 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

"The two of us get together and we're like a couple of naughty kids at school that need to be wrangled to be focused," he said.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

Last October, a similar inflatable pumpkin went on a windy joyride, rolling into traffic and briefly “attacking” an officer before being wrangled back into submission.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

They wrangled a little and at last she said yes he might.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The agreement between Britain and the European Union to remove the border controls was signed on Tuesday in Brussels after years of wrangling following the UK's exit from the bloc in 2020.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

It has been delayed by wrangling over how the duty applies to the intelligence services, with ministers recently breaking the deadlock with further amendments.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

It took some wrangling, but I got the information we need.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner