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On Monday, however, O’Connor struck back with a shocking order that used wildly inappropriate intimidation tactics to wrest back control of the case.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

But she had to fight to wrest the position permanently from the grasp of an inept, problematic man.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

The race for Paris mayor looked uncertain Monday as a right-wing former minister hoping to wrest control of the French capital from the left claimed she had gained key support for a second-round run-off.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

After much of the exchanges were dominated by the Eubanks, Benn managed to wrest back attention towards the end of the event.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025

Deny accidents and wrest fault from the stars.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

We feel we have to do with a compiler—with a man who has not himself seen the witnesses, but who labors at the texts and wrests their sense to make them agree.

From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan

On his ninth try, in 1977, Begin wrested power from the Labor party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Co-star Cynthia Erivo promptly wrested the stunned actress away from Mr Wen, who was seen being escorted out of the event by security officers.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

He muscled it into the cage elevator, leashes in hand, the machine balanced against his hip like a prize wrested from fate.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 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

But something snapped in Ivory after middle linebacker was wrested from him.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

I wrote at the time that the trade peace was fragile: “Trump is at liberty to threaten higher tariffs again for any reason,” such as wresting Greenland from Denmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Abolitionist lawyers were aided by politicians in wresting the issue away from ethicists and philosophers, moralists and clergy, and making the courts the arena for debate.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 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

But recent data show the economy may be gradually picking up and wresting itself out of stagnation and deflation.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 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