tussle

Past Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart have been shortlisted for the prestigious literary award again, after a selection process that the judges described as "a tussle".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The announcement kicked off a chaotic tussle over the funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Will Scottish Premiership return to two-team title tussle?

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

In light of the legal tussle with California, some have encouraged David Ellison to ditch Paramount’s Hollywood headquarters in favor of Tennessee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Big Bol was a bouncer at the Crow Club, perfectly suited to tossing out drunks and wasters, but too heavy on his feet to be much use when it came to a real tussle.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Bradley Tusk, a venture capitalist and campaign manager for Bloomberg’s third-term mayoral run, said he admired Mastro’s moxie, even though the lawyer had several legal tussles with his former boss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Bessent has become one of Trump’s most trusted advisers after previous tussles with other Trump allies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Before Robby and Al-Hashimi engage in any real ideological tussles, though, she commits the cardinal sin of suggesting they change the trauma center’s nickname to something else.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

The former Liverpool boss had many memorable tussles with Guardiola and the City boss has said the German is the one who has pushed him the most in this job.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

Campion and Chervil were kept busy taking out endurance patrols, and tussles and training fights were organized at morning silflay.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Zwane tussled with Roberto Alvarado, with the Mexican going to ground holding his head.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

In 2025, the US president went as far as visiting the Fed's under-renovation headquarters, where he verbally tussled with Powell as the two toured the site.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

In 2017, it tussled about management succession with activist investor Christopher Hohn’s TCI Fund Management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

On Friday night, reports emerged that Elon Musk’s aides had tussled with Office of Personnel Management and Treasury staffers while demanding access to troves of information about federal employees.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2025

I tussled, “Let go of me! I don’t want to go to school! Let me go!” but my mother held fast onto me.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Four victories in as many games has City sitting joint-top of the Premier League alongside Arsenal, and the early signs suggest those two sides will be the ones tussling for the title once more.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

To wrap the Pont Neuf, he spent $2.5 million of his own money and some 10 years tussling with bureaucrats and politicians before securing the approval of President Francois Mitterrand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

His attentiveness will be closely watched in the Maduro case, as tussling between the defense and prosecution has already threatened to draw out proceedings.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

In “The Climb,” there is a moment where Covino and Marvin briefly wrestle, a ludicrous sight of two grown men tussling on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

All was quiet, but as they paused at the top of the bank, a tussling pack of six or seven sparrows flew down to the line and began to peck about between the sleepers.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams