as in fighting
to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery
the sisters wrestled on the floor over the last cookie
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Recent Examples of wrestling
Miller would see young kits playing and wrestling around their den one day, only to find them all dead from bird flu the next.
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Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2026
The end of kayfabe brought about a strange artistic flourishing—wrestling postmodernism.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Farmers statewide are wrestling with similar difficult decisions on whether to plant crops, Colorado Department of Agriculture Commissioner Kate Greenberg said.
—Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Germany is still wrestling with that legacy.
—Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
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Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2026
The end of kayfabe brought about a strange artistic flourishing—wrestling postmodernism.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Farmers statewide are wrestling with similar difficult decisions on whether to plant crops, Colorado Department of Agriculture Commissioner Kate Greenberg said.
—Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Germany is still wrestling with that legacy.
—Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrestling
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At that point, the White House needs approval from the legislative branch to continue fighting, according to the War Powers Resolution, a law aimed at reasserting Congress’ constitutional role of declaring war.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
2 May 2026
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The Lebanese Ministry of Health reports that at least 2,659 people have died in Lebanon and over 8,000 have been injured since Israel and Hezbollah began fighting in March.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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As their lives intertwine, all four must confront the rigid boundaries of society while grappling with identity, ambition, and desire.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
2 May 2026
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Airline workers are also grappling with the company’s collapse.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
2 May 2026
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This game is the ultimate in brawling adventure.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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And in 2025, the Bearista cup caused a craze, with customers lining up overnight and, in some cases, brawling over it.—
Nick El Hajj,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Two boys tussling over a bladder in a three-foot-high canvas painted by Joseph Wright of Derby in the late 1760s snarl up in a whirlpool of pain, each twisting the other’s right ear.—
Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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But filings ahead of the hearing in the 3rd Business Court Division shed more light on the dispute that has co-owners Grant Shaw and Alessandro Bosco — and Shaw’s former father in law Tom Sansone — tussling over control of the business and its debt.—
Paul Flahive,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Wrestling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestling. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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