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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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As AI threatens to make the billable hour obsolete, professional-services firms wrestle with reinventing how they charge clients.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

But it was interesting to see him wrestle with how his work hinders that — is it the crutch or the salvation?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

In September 2023, Maduro - then still president - sent 11,000 soldiers to storm and wrestle back control of the jail.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

Dell’s ability to wrestle successfully with the memory shortage was the primary reason Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring upgraded the stock to Equal Weight from Underweight.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

The twins wiped their noses on their sleeves and fell to the floor, where they commenced to wrestle in celebration.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Julia wrestles with her conscience the entire time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

The aspect that he says he wrestles with is how much higher rates would harm the economy.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

For Episode 6, Deming made great use of a small lab set, where Reilly wrestles with emotional demons after being drugged.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

In one scene in Glenrothan, he rugby tackles Alan Cumming's Donal to the ground and wrestles him.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2026

Finally all eyes are on Pink Boy, who wrestles out, Sorry.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the "black hole information paradox."

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

Schatz pointed out that Rubio had moved all foreign aid under the State Department and had just wrestled some of that money away from the OMB to respond to an Ebola outbreak.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

Sue and her cousins had wrestled with how to handle the Rosenthal lineage before Taylor’s father, Willie.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

We both wrestled with trying to find agency inside of moments in our adult lives that felt like abandonment.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

And all the while I wrestled with the tight ropes at my hands, working them loose slowly, carefully, until I was able to free my right hand.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

The company now has the rights to air live games and events in popular sports including football, baseball, boxing and wrestling.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

It is the same product professional wrestling has sold for decades, but at least the WWE has the honesty to admit the whole thing is staged.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

While that kind of dramatic interference is typical during a staged wrestling fight, Smith appeared to lose consciousness as soon as Jackson body slammed him.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Consultants are wrestling with a messy shift away from hourly billing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

In the prayer following the chapter, all his energy gathered—all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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