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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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As Ivan and Nina wrestle with their own emotional truths, which range from her mother Nora’s departure from their lives to Ivan’s clumsy recitations of Nina’s childhood antics, something alarming is afoot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

If you wrestle for a living, you’re faced with significant pressure to perform for as long as you can, through as many injuries as you can.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

As business leaders wrestle with their AI implementations, a new report from Pew Research Center illuminates how ordinary citizens feel about the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

All you can do is wrestle back to the light.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

But just to be sure, he feigned an excuse for the school police officer, who used to wrestle years ago and, as a result, liked Luke.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

The aspect that he says he wrestles with is how much higher rates would harm the economy.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

The performances are good; the plot, postcard-sized: Adam returns to Eternia, unleashes his alter-identity He-Man and wrestles with the pressure to live up to his new biceps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

In one scene in Glenrothan, he rugby tackles Alan Cumming's Donal to the ground and wrestles him.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 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

He wrestles it to the ground and lets it go again.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The chain—which just wrestled back the No. 2 spot for U.S. burger chain sales from Wendy’s—said U.S. same-store sales grew 8.4% in the third quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

In its eight episodes, “Lanterns” wrestled with an array of concepts some viewers loved and others … well, you know, fanboys and the internet.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Pocognoli has inherited one of the overriding problems Clarke wrestled with during his spell - scoring goals.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

He’d wrestled for the Indians in addition to his playing football.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

She danced with her cat and danced with her dreams while Gerald wrestled with memories of pain.

From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper

He said Mr and Mrs Brand were "currently wrestling with how to exactly explain to a child who's just turned 10 what has happened here".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

And if the net is widened to include powerlifting and pro wrestling, Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Jesse Ventura of Minnesota get a nod.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The encounter started with the Swiss wrestlers trading in their usual getups for Senegalese wrestling attire.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Others are wrestling with uncertainty about their place in America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Maybe Chess would growl like a bear and pretend to be angry, and then they could have a mock wrestling match before breakfast.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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