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wrestle

[res-uhl] / ˈrɛs əl /


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As Ivan and Nina wrestle with their own emotional truths, which range from her mother Nora’s departure from their lives to Ivan’s clumsy recitations of Nina’s childhood antics, something alarming is afoot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

One option the judges seemed to wrestle with was whether to send the case back to the district court to make more concrete findings, which could involve taking testimony from live witnesses.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

All you can do is wrestle back to the light.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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

Suddenly Razi jumped on Marco and tried to wrestle the box out of his hands, but Cook grabbed him by the back of his shirt and pulled him off.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

There, her brain still working on what she was doing in her office, she’ll lose herself on multiple fronts as she wrestles with a scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Julia wrestles with her conscience the entire time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

In one scene in Glenrothan, he rugby tackles Alan Cumming's Donal to the ground and wrestles him.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

Finally all eyes are on Pink Boy, who wrestles out, Sorry.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

She wrestled with the struggles her daughter faced while trying to get ahead and deciding to test into one of New York’s ultra-selective specialized public high schools.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Lockwood jokingly added: "A tussle, yeah. We wrestled like pigs in the mud!"

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

He’d wrestled for the Indians in addition to his playing football.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

People who have wrestled with hard questions and practiced working them out by hand will stand out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

We wrestled over it, laughing as we tried to keep the spray of water toward the tub.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Across the album's 12 tracks, he frequently sounds adrift, fretting about the state of the world and wrestling with "monsters in your head that you can't turn off".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Next, the roles were reversed: Senegalese wrestlers put on traditional burlap shorts to try their hand at Swiss wrestling, with the Swiss avenging their earlier defeat.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

After her fatal accident, the movie shows a stricken Chin wrestling with his career path: “I don’t know if I find it justifiable anymore,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Wall Street isn’t alone in wrestling with a puzzle.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

They had mock battles and tumbled over and over, wrestling and biting.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall


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