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But a quick flurry of wickets for Notts helped them wrest back control and take the game to a thrilling final over in which Surrey needed 12 to win.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

But she had to fight to wrest the position permanently from the grasp of an inept, problematic man.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

The move caps a nearly 17-month fight over the fund, including two failed attempts to wrest control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

But if it can wrest more power from Live Nation, that’s a worthy win in the short term.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

It was cold and metallic feeling, but it squirmed and tried to wrest itself from her hand.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

From here, much of the novel dwells on Günter’s terror and paralysis as the Nazi Party wrests control of Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Rozario’s mother holds onto him protectively, then wrests the scissors away.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

Indeed, Fish wrests us from any post-intermission relaxation with a reworked dream ballet sequence that begins in heavy-metal mode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

But see, I pray, whither this famous theologian wrests it.

From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John

Cobolli immediately wrested back control in the fourth, racing into a 4-0 lead, but Svajda - who had never previously gone beyond the second round of a Grand Slam - refused to give up.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

The move came after the Dutch government wrested control of the company from its Chinese owner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

It is packaged and commodified, wrested from its continuity with the world and from its intimate relation to the body.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

At the time Poland’s Parliament wrested power from the king with its cry of “Nothing about us without us,” it was made up solely by men from the noble class.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024

Here and there the imprint of things wrested out of the tar by scavengers.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

And yet his drive, his ambition, his hunger for glory were essential to the enterprise of wresting the colonies from the grip of distant overlords.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026

I wrote at the time that the trade peace was fragile: “Trump is at liberty to threaten higher tariffs again for any reason,” such as wresting Greenland from Denmark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta said earlier this month that he is considering placing them in “receivership,” essentially wresting local control of the facilities away from the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025

The opening exchanges were not to script but Northampton's internationals were crucial in wresting back momentum.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025

“That one, brother, he bite,” she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver