wrestle
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All you can do is wrestle back to the light.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Even as consumers wrestle with higher costs of living, a report from Circana in February found that store-brand momentum had stretched “beyond inflationary periods,” after price increases eased briefly last year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Even as the White House embraces AI as an engine of “human flourishing,” the administration continues to wrestle with the potential spiritual consequences of advanced machines that approximate human consciousness and often exceed human capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
They’re the responsible adults now, watching Gen Z characters that wrestle with generation-specific problems in ways that look confusing from the outside.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Maddie cried, and managed to wrestle the umbrella inside.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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The aspect that he says he wrestles with is how much higher rates would harm the economy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The performances are good; the plot, postcard-sized: Adam returns to Eternia, unleashes his alter-identity He-Man and wrestles with the pressure to live up to his new biceps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Hellerstein, an Orthodox Jew, has said that he schedules sentencing hearings for Fridays so he has all of the Sabbath to reflect on his decisions—and wrestles with them even afterward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
“I think everyone who takes time off wrestles with the discomfort of having money go out and not having money come in. It’s deeply uncomfortable — for myself included.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025
Since he looks like he wrestles alligators for fun, it’s very effective.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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He was having "weird feelings" in his hand for a while but wrestled through the pain - until May last year when it got worse.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Firefighters wrestled "numerous flare-ups" under control overnight, working in very difficult conditions as powerful winds buffeted the eastern region bordering Germany -- with a "mini-tornado" even striking a town outside the park.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
They’d say there were times when he was away — I wrestled with that — but they would say yeah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the "black hole information paradox."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Fig whined and shimmied until he wrestled from my grip.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Investors seem to be locked in a wrestling match over these extremes, contributing to big swings in bonds last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Tsarukyan, as he had done for much of his career, sought to use his wrestling skills to change the pace of the fight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
"I'd sleep outside if it meant getting a job wrestling one day. Honestly, it's my dream job," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Companies are wrestling with how and when to disclose instances of security breaches and model misbehavior, amid a steady drumbeat of such incidents and rising fears over out-of-control AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Visions of disarming bombs and wrestling alligators sweep through my mind.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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