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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

The move caps a nearly 17-month fight over the fund, including two failed attempts to wrest control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

One of the little girls managed to wrest the banana roadster away from Peter Sinkowitz.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

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

Then also speculation on the wages' ratio wrests all nobility from labor, which is regarded as the worst misfortune a man can be condemned to, when in reality it is the most precious of boons.

From Fruitfulness by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

It is as if she had been wrested away by a natural force, scarcely understood, but so powerful that it stays the hands raised by the putti, who seem to want to oppose Zeus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Cobolli immediately wrested back control in the fourth, racing into a 4-0 lead, but Svajda - who had never previously gone beyond the second round of a Grand Slam - refused to give up.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

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

The swan-feather sword he wrested from this monster can be seen in the Wentung County Armory in Shantung today.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

What’s chilling about “Disruption,” an absorbing ensemble drama by Andrew Stein about the brave new world of technology, is that its dark vision of machines wresting control of human destinies doesn’t feel fantastical or futuristic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

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 find it ironic in this body that we often speak about local control and here we are wresting local control away from the city of Louisville,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

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