wrangle

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

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

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

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

"Okay, okay, ladies," Coach Whit cut us off, still laughing, and tried to wrangle us back in.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

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

Atop the aerial ladder of a bright red fire engine, a firefighter wrangles a hose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

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 government has threatened to de-registrar the party over leadership wrangles.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2023

Frau Büchner wrangles impossible harmonies from our voices.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

So the Messrs. Hemsworth get on their motorcycles and set out to tour the region where the actor spent childhood and his dad wrangled cattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

After a summer of contract wrangling, Pollock kept his look hidden under a beanie and scrum-cap before emerging for kick-off and ensuring the spotlight stayed on him.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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

After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, the Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to approve two settlement agreements with Charter that allowed the merger to move forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

On this front, my team had been wrangling with Barack’s communications staff over an idea I’d had to host a Halloween party for kids at the White House.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama