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But a quick flurry of wickets for Notts helped them wrest back control and take the game to a thrilling final over in which Surrey needed 12 to win.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

This column has long maintained that a major operation to wrest control of the Persian Gulf would be recommitting to a strategic past that accorded excessive primacy to the Gulf and its oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

But she had to fight to wrest the position permanently from the grasp of an inept, problematic man.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

Baldoni has denied the allegations, arguing that Lively sought to wrest creative control of the film and damage his reputation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026

“At dawn. To wrest the cauldron from Arawn himself. The cauldron he uses to...”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

From here, much of the novel dwells on Günter’s terror and paralysis as the Nazi Party wrests control of Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Rozario’s mother holds onto him protectively, then wrests the scissors away.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

Indeed, Fish wrests us from any post-intermission relaxation with a reworked dream ballet sequence that begins in heavy-metal mode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

Everybody who wrests from Nature in increment to knowledge, who does something never done before, everybody who by poetry fires others to action, tears off a piece of the veil.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan

Cobolli immediately wrested back control in the fourth, racing into a 4-0 lead, but Svajda - who had never previously gone beyond the second round of a Grand Slam - refused to give up.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

On his ninth try, in 1977, Begin wrested power from the Labor party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

It is packaged and commodified, wrested from its continuity with the world and from its intimate relation to the body.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

At the time Poland’s Parliament wrested power from the king with its cry of “Nothing about us without us,” it was made up solely by men from the noble class.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024

But something snapped in Ivory after middle linebacker was wrested from him.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

I wrote at the time that the trade peace was fragile: “Trump is at liberty to threaten higher tariffs again for any reason,” such as wresting Greenland from Denmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

The opening exchanges were not to script but Northampton's internationals were crucial in wresting back momentum.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025

Abolitionist lawyers were aided by politicians in wresting the issue away from ethicists and philosophers, moralists and clergy, and making the courts the arena for debate.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024

Kuleba said that restarting the aid deliveries would bring Kyiv closer to wresting back control over Ukrainian skies from Russia’s vastly larger and more modern air force.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2024

As he was wresting it free, a blaze of white ap-peared at the edge of his vision.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin