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Recent Examples of wangle After wangling her way into the jury-deliberation room by getting Lonnie the sexist podcaster disqualified, her questions about the weapon, motive, and witnesses’ testimony puncture hole after hole in the DA’s case against Delia. Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024 Then, the Yankees wangled and wooed it away from the Spanish and Mexicans. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 Through that connection, Marlinspike wangled a meeting with WhatsApp’s cofounder Brian Acton. Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 July 2016 To wangle a slice of the $40 billion Saudi Arabia plans to invest in Africa. Matthew T. Page, TIME, 10 May 2024 The production has managed to wangle an imposing location for the Visitor’s antics to unfold: one of those huge London statement homes made almost entirely of glass, like a sort of gigantic Cubist fishbowl. Catherine Bray, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024 That very day in 1963, Mr. Epstein had borrowed his stepfather’s car and driven from New York City to the Cornell campus in upstate Ithaca, N.Y., to try to wangle his way back into school after having flunked out seven years earlier. Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024 This theory is possible; a crooked or inept employee might have taken the file, wangled it to serve Ariely’s hypothesis, and then re-sent it using a non-Hartford e-mail address. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023 Clearly, the few evolutionary changes the domestic cat has made have been the right ones to wangle their way into people’s hearts and homes. Jonathan Losos, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wangle
Verb
  • His special envoy to Ukraine set a goal of negotiating an agreement even quicker during the first 100 days of Trump's term.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, negotiates trade deals on behalf of all 27 member states.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Lithos arranges for the dust to be collected at the rock quarries and transported to local farms.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's decision ordering the Trump administration to arrange Abrego Garcia’s return.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • It could be manipulated by the therapist or simply placed in the correct position by the individual.
    Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2025
  • These are powers that many politicians – including, currently, U.S. President Donald Trump – would seemingly like to control or at least manipulate.
    Ana Carolina Garriga, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Wangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wangle. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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