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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and intellectual, speaks as if he is on the verge of Christian belief; confer his latest book, “We Who Wrestle With God.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

MCD Books at Farrar, Straus & Giroux published her second book, “How to Wrestle a Girl,” in 2021, a collection focused on teen girls and the authority figures who invariably let them down.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Wrestle with the things you need to wrestle with.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2023

Dressed in a "Pray Eat Wrestle Repeat" T-shirt, Gareth "Angel" Thompson says he opened his wrestling ministry to help those who may have been forced to navigate difficult childhoods and volatile family situations.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2022

That none shall have the Prize, that Wrestle with Shoes that have any sort of Nails of Iron or Brass in them.

From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Gilpin, Sidney




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