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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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In dusty provincial capitals and farmers' fields, where international and Afghan aid agencies wrestle with ways to work on the ground, the conversations continue day in day out.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

"Because it's so big, and because it is so regional, it does create tensions that have been with us since the beginning, and we still wrestle with them today," he says.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Similar clashes are erupting nationwide as communities wrestle with privacy rights and the rapid spread of AI-enabled cameras.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

“You can wrestle momentum away from teams and create your own. Every goal, every block, every every set play — everything that we’re doing is together. That’s how we create the momentum.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

She was still clinging to it, both of her own arms wrapped around it as though she meant to dig in her heels and wrestle Skathis for him.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Jason Parham: A major theme in the film wrestles with what it means to find your place at home when you return.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 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

Helmuth wrestles a sudden wave of nausea as he realizes what Hugo did last night.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

They’d say there were times when he was away — I wrestled with that — but they would say yeah.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

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

It was painful to watch him at points last year, as he wrestled with the confusion created by his lack of pace.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

Shirtless and with hair shaved short to prevent lice, they scampered and wrestled and searched for frogs in the mud.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

We are also wrestling with a difficult question about our estate plan.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

After a year at Goldman Sachs, Kushner entered Harvard Business School, while Jared was wrestling with the family business.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Funk’s involvement in wrestling also expanded into promotion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Inspired by the show, he sought out a wrestling school and began training, and now the 23-year-old performs weekly in the ring on WWE's developmental show NXT on Netflix.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

In his tattered work shirt and grease-splattered jeans, he looked like he’d just lost a wrestling match with a locomotive.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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