wrangle
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“Those poor girls were pawns in the local political wrangle as much as I was. They were being drained and wrung out and so was I,” Flynn wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
A former hedge-fund manager, Bessent has taken a hands-on approach in an effort to wrangle bond yields lower.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
After a wrangle over that, he was finally cleared to play in competitive matches for Villa, making his competitive debut last week with a goal in the Super Cup against Paris St-Germain.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
A wrangle of male voices caught my attention.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Shein’s valuation has declined sharply since hitting $100 billion in 2022, as it wrangles with increasing competition from rivals such as Temu and persistent uncertainty from escalating trade restrictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The group’s motto says it all: “As the cowboy wrangles cattle, we wrangle consciousness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
Lewis Hamilton says there is "no transparency and no accountability" in Formula 1 as the sport continues to be rocked by off-track wrangles.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2024
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín said the government’s wording was so vague it will lead to legal wrangles and most people “do not know what the meaning of a durable relationship is.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Frau Büchner wrangles impossible harmonies from our voices.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Yet as I wrangled them into my closet, something kept nagging at me like a pebble in an insole: Bernie Sanders’ eye-rolling dismissal outside the Senate elevator.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
So the Messrs. Hemsworth get on their motorcycles and set out to tour the region where the actor spent childhood and his dad wrangled cattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
The two TV giants wrangled for weeks over how much Google must pay to carry Disney’s channels, including FX, Disney Jr. and National Geographic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
He knew he had gotten me in trouble with Mom and so he quickly wrangled a construction job in West Virginia for a couple days of paid work.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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And it’s a solid example of Mr. Webb’s gift for being utterly unorthodox while wrangling the ears of a mainstream audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
But after years of wrangling over the issue this past summer season proved decisive in sounding the death knell for the Manhattan carriages.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Bonta has said that Ellison’s pledge for the two studios to release 30 films a year wasn’t enough to end the legal wrangling because prosecutors often are powerless to enforce conditions after a deal closes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The “Ted Lasso” writers aren’t entirely unaware of the most obvious concerns that come with tasking Ted with wrangling a team of disparate female personalities.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
When I wasn't bleeding, and when Mirren and Johnny were snorkeling or wrangling the littles, or when everyone lay on couches watching movies on the Clairmont flat-screen, Gat and I hid away.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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