as in to fight
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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As both clubs wrestle with a new reality of injuries and excuses, missed chances and devastating counter-attacking blows, The Athletic’s Thom Harris and Liam Tharme take to the tactics board to offer some potential solutions.
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Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
Males are very territorial and defend their realms from other males by wrestling with each other, and by calling.
—Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
Gladys swings at him with a baseball bat and misses (great job, Gladys), and Adams tries to wrestle the gun away.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
This comes as Democrats continue to wrestle over what went wrong in 2024.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
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Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
Males are very territorial and defend their realms from other males by wrestling with each other, and by calling.
—Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
Gladys swings at him with a baseball bat and misses (great job, Gladys), and Adams tries to wrestle the gun away.
—Laura Bradley, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
This comes as Democrats continue to wrestle over what went wrong in 2024.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Wrestle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrestle. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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