as in fighting
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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Scientists are still wrestling with one of the most basic questions in biology, according to Manasvi Lingam, a planetary scientist at the Florida Institute of Technology.
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Joel Achenbach, arkansasonline.com, 20 Oct. 2024
In a city that’s been wrestling for years with competing demands for more social services and for greater public safety, no neighborhood is in greater crisis than the MacArthur Park area.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
In a city that’s been wrestling for years with competing demands for more social services and for greater public safety, no neighborhood is in greater crisis than this one.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
Next year is John Cena’s final year wrestling full-time for the WWE.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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Joel Achenbach, arkansasonline.com, 20 Oct. 2024
In a city that’s been wrestling for years with competing demands for more social services and for greater public safety, no neighborhood is in greater crisis than the MacArthur Park area.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
In a city that’s been wrestling for years with competing demands for more social services and for greater public safety, no neighborhood is in greater crisis than this one.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
Next year is John Cena’s final year wrestling full-time for the WWE.
—Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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Set in the same Chicago neighborhood the Tony Award winner grew up in, the work focuses on three generations of Black women grappling with the trauma of state violence, intergenerational trauma, parental sacrifice and community displacement.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2025
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Her second book chronicles her experience adopting a child from Ethiopia and grappling with motherhood and trauma.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Wrestling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestling. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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