as in to fight
to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery
the sisters wrestled on the floor over the last cookie
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Recent Examples of wrestle
Getting a chance to wrestle at Arena Mexico, that’s my highlight.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2026
Wallace ended up wrestling the gun back from the officer, police said, at which point the officer shot Wallace, police said at the time.
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Shardaa Gray,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
At a launch event here, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that until now, humans have wrestled with the complexity of biology only with their minds.
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Matthew Herper,
STAT,
30 June 2026
Her parents, Baptist deacons who ultimately left the church over its refusal to ordain women, raised their children to wrestle with such questions.
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Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
30 June 2026
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2026
Wallace ended up wrestling the gun back from the officer, police said, at which point the officer shot Wallace, police said at the time.
—
Shardaa Gray,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
At a launch event here, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that until now, humans have wrestled with the complexity of biology only with their minds.
—
Matthew Herper,
STAT,
30 June 2026
Her parents, Baptist deacons who ultimately left the church over its refusal to ordain women, raised their children to wrestle with such questions.
—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
30 June 2026
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Two firefighters died from injures sustained while fighting the blaze.
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The action is set in the 1750s with Washington as a young man eager to fight, initially as a British officer in a period of complex loyalties.
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Reading scores among high school seniors are at their lowest in decades, according to federal testing data, while schools across the country are grappling with how to respond to waning attention spans and artificial intelligence.
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Chatrie and the Supreme Court For decades, the court has grappled with law enforcement’s use of technologies to track the location of people or things.
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“Wrestle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestle. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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