as in fought
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 wrestled
Tempers flared late in the fourth quarter when Kings center Dylan Cardwell and Nets guard Egor Demin wrestled for a loose ball.
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Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
5 July 2026
The shooting may have been worse if not for the actions of a Muslim immigrant from Syria who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers.
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John Blake,
CNN Money,
5 July 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
While both parties have long wrestled with warring factions in their ranks, the ideological rift is on full display this year, especially among Democrats, as democratic socialists test just how far to the left voters are willing to go.
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Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
State leaders have long wrestled with how to divvy up the Deschutes Basin in the face of increasing drought, booming population and growing demand.
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Emily Cureton Cook,
ProPublica,
26 June 2026
Anyone who's wrestled a four-wheel carry-on across cobblestone streets knows exactly why that matters.
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Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
Again and again, young people submitted poems that wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence, identity, anxiety, grief and uncertainty.
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Sean Murphy,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
Faith traditions have wrestled with those questions for thousands of years.
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Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
5 July 2026
The shooting may have been worse if not for the actions of a Muslim immigrant from Syria who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers.
—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
5 July 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
While both parties have long wrestled with warring factions in their ranks, the ideological rift is on full display this year, especially among Democrats, as democratic socialists test just how far to the left voters are willing to go.
—
Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
27 June 2026
State leaders have long wrestled with how to divvy up the Deschutes Basin in the face of increasing drought, booming population and growing demand.
—
Emily Cureton Cook,
ProPublica,
26 June 2026
Anyone who's wrestled a four-wheel carry-on across cobblestone streets knows exactly why that matters.
—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
26 June 2026
Again and again, young people submitted poems that wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence, identity, anxiety, grief and uncertainty.
—
Sean Murphy,
The Conversation,
25 June 2026
Faith traditions have wrestled with those questions for thousands of years.
—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrestled
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The future king of Britain descends from American patriots who fought against the crown he is destined to inherit, according to a new book tracing Prince William's family tree.
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Both exist in spite of the odds, symbols of perseverance and community — memorials to those who fought to establish a new country and a new state, and who happened to do it in a place that proved particularly untamable.
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Mayor Vi Lyles announced her surprise resignation in May as the city grappled with generation-defining decisions.
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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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Over the past month, the administration has tussled with Anthropic and OpenAI over releasing their latest models to the public.
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But the Americans tussled right back, and never totally lost their cool.
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Maxxine battled back, but Raquel caught a spinning kick attempt and stuck Maxxine with a Tejana Bomb for the win.
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Japan battled valiantly but ultimately couldn’t spend enough time on the ball to threaten Brazil.
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Kupcho scuffled to a second-round 73 after carding the only 66 of the tournament so far on Thursday.
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The trial’s first witness was a video expert analyzing security video in which Anthony and Metcalf scuffled before Anthony fled toward the stadium exit.
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Another worker described the chaos as well over a dozen teens brawled inside the diner.
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The two cousins brawled back to ringside.
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“Wrestled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestled. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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