wrangle
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I wrangle her into those tights and leotard because I will always believe dance gives me the best life lessons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
He could either exploit the armada as leverage to wrangle a diplomatic deal or pull the trigger.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
That email doesn't specify what "matter" he's referring to, but since 2009, Stern, Epstein, and Sarah Ferguson had been engaged in a long and painful wrangle about her acute financial troubles.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
Jobs not only received the parts he asked for, he managed to wrangle a summer job.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
It would be another four years before the legal wrangles to finally break up the Beatles were complete.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
Somehow he wrangles a group of five surly boys until one of their rich fathers comes through and whisks away four.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 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
Tehran and Washington have wrangled for years over influence in Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Last October, a similar inflatable pumpkin went on a windy joyride, rolling into traffic and briefly “attacking” an officer before being wrangled back into submission.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025
Jessie announced to Isa, Oliver, and Hyacinth as she wrangled Laney into her puffy purple jacket and sparkly winter boots.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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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
Legal wrangling over the validity of the deal is continuing.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Volkswagen’s supervisory board had initially rejected Blume’s plan at a meeting in July, triggering two months of high-profile wrangling between the CEO’s team, worker representatives and Lower Saxony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, the Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to approve two settlement agreements with Charter that allowed the merger to move forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Shorty emerges, wrangling an armload of fur coats.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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