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Now, four of his adult children are suing to wrest away control of his more-than-26% stake in Hilltop Holdings, worth some $600 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Baldoni denied wrongdoing and accused Lively of concocting false allegations as part of an effort to wrest creative control of the film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Trump's Republican Party faces a stern test at upcoming midterm elections in November, with Democrats seeking to wrest control of both houses of Congress.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

“At dawn. To wrest the cauldron from Arawn himself. The cauldron he uses to...”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Zeus wrests the still immature child from its mother when she is slain by lightning, and shelters it in his own side till it is ready to be born.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison

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

Today, Google still dominates and “No existing rival has wrested market share from Google,” he said in his opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

Thanks to those remarkable men, plus others uncounted who died on the way, Angola has wrested itself free of Portugal and still owns its diamonds and oil wells.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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 rest of the medals have been spread out across judo, shooting, boxing, cycling and the wresting sport of kurash.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

One would hold back the overgrowth, and the rest would reach in for tomatoes, wresting the fruit from the stems.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt