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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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Godzilla of con artists as ‘The Rehearsal’s’ Nathan Fielder tries to wrestle the truth out of Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

One option the judges seemed to wrestle with was whether to send the case back to the district court to make more concrete findings, which could involve taking testimony from live witnesses.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

If you wrestle for a living, you’re faced with significant pressure to perform for as long as you can, through as many injuries as you can.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

All you can do is wrestle back to the light.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Suddenly Razi jumped on Marco and tried to wrestle the box out of his hands, but Cook grabbed him by the back of his shirt and pulled him off.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

But where Hwan’s Christianity is a willful, grotesque misreading of the Bible, Latif actively wrestles with his moral shortcomings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Caught in a web of bureaucratic intrigue, he wrestles with matters of maturity, morality, conscience and redemption he has long evaded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

“I think everyone who takes time off wrestles with the discomfort of having money go out and not having money come in. It’s deeply uncomfortable — for myself included.”

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025

Lou Ann wrestles a large sleeping mat out of the linen closet and flips on a light in a room crowded with cribs and small sleeping mats.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Born Benjamin Satterley in a blue-collar community in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, he first came to national attention stateside in the WWE, where he wrestled under the decidedly English name Neville.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

He’d wrestled for the Indians in addition to his playing football.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Louisville, Ky.-based Brown-Forman has also wrestled with a takeover offer from crosstown rival Sazerac, which it has rebuffed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

He was having "weird feelings" in his hand for a while but wrestled through the pain - until May last year when it got worse.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

I bent forward, put my arms up, and she wrestled my shirt over my head, discarded it in the sink, while I shivered in her bright kitchen, feeling cold and dirty and sick.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Starbucks stores around the world have been wrestling with non-paying seat-hoggers and other undesirable behaviour from customers.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Workers have started a $2.6-billion expansion and remodeling of the aging facility, which will host fencing, judo, table tennis, taekwondo and wrestling in 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Board of Education, which also opened a can of worms we’re still wrestling with today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Few things are more difficult to get down in immutable ink than the history of professional wrestling.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Normally this would have been just as much fun as the bear growl and the wrestling match.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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