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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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The Tour continues to wrestle with the heat of the European summer, which cooked some early stages and reignited discussions over whether races should start earlier in the morning.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

"Because it's so big, and because it is so regional, it does create tensions that have been with us since the beginning, and we still wrestle with them today," he says.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Citizens go about their days, anxieties bleeding into their behaviors, trying to wrestle some control from a world that offers them none.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

For me, personally, I’ve had to wrestle with this idea after being on “SNL” for seven years and having to evaluate myself and having an audience evaluate me every week.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

One arm up as if she was waiting for someone to grab it and arm wrestle her, and the other arm curved as if wrapped around the waist of somebody else.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

The aspect that he says he wrestles with is how much higher rates would harm the economy.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

For Episode 6, Deming made great use of a small lab set, where Reilly wrestles with emotional demons after being drugged.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

Caught in a web of bureaucratic intrigue, he wrestles with matters of maturity, morality, conscience and redemption he has long evaded.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

While the government wrestles with provision for children, many families continue to struggle.

From BBC Nov. 13, 2025

Helmuth sits at the table, tapping his pencil impatiently as he wrestles with his feelings.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

Schatz pointed out that Rubio had moved all foreign aid under the State Department and had just wrestled some of that money away from the OMB to respond to an Ebola outbreak.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

Communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and elsewhere have wrestled with invasions in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Barack, I knew, wrestled with what he wanted to do with his life, which direction his career would take.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Funk’s involvement in wrestling also expanded into promotion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Dory Funk Jr., a pro wrestling icon and one of three members of the Funk family to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, has died at age 85.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Inspired by the show, he sought out a wrestling school and began training, and now the 23-year-old performs weekly in the ring on WWE's developmental show NXT on Netflix.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

From estate agent to wrestling superstardom in Mexico.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

“Goulash. Still wrestling with the code your brother told you about?” whispers Colin.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin




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