angling

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But some of the tech moguls angling to become our AI overlords aren’t like you and me.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

If Martinez played to left centre-back Mings, Kolo Muani pressed intensely while angling his run to block the pass into Maatsen.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

Within days, Gorka was angling for Kent’s old job at the counterterrorism center, the government’s hub for analyzing terrorist threats, The Washington Post reported.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

The podcasters announced that they had won a “commitment to editorial independence,” lest anyone think OpenAI CEO Sam Altman might be angling to turn their show into propaganda.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026

“I didn’t. That was her plan. She knew that our Warsaw operation was being dismantled and insisted on supervising. I consented. She was always angling for assignments, and I figured this might scratch that itch.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin