wrangle

He could either exploit the armada as leverage to wrangle a diplomatic deal or pull the trigger.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

That email doesn't specify what "matter" he's referring to, but since 2009, Stern, Epstein, and Sarah Ferguson had been engaged in a long and painful wrangle about her acute financial troubles.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

She needs to figure out how to wrangle it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

For politicians, what’s “in” at any moment is important to wrangle votes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

He strategized about how to get the message across, how to wrangle more volunteers and find pockets of people who remained unfound.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Atop the aerial ladder of a bright red fire engine, a firefighter wrangles a hose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

There have been wrangles over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has grown in recent years.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025

Somehow he wrangles a group of five surly boys until one of their rich fathers comes through and whisks away four.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024

The case is the latest in a series of similar British legal wrangles between parents and doctors over the treatment of terminally ill children.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

Frau Büchner wrangles impossible harmonies from our voices.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Yet as I wrangled them into my closet, something kept nagging at me like a pebble in an insole: Bernie Sanders’ eye-rolling dismissal outside the Senate elevator.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

As a young father, Craig moved his family to the Northern Territories of Australia, where he wrangled “scrub bulls and buffalo” that had escaped from herds and needed to be sent to market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Last October, a similar inflatable pumpkin went on a windy joyride, rolling into traffic and briefly “attacking” an officer before being wrangled back into submission.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

"I explained I'd been up since 04:30, had two hours' sleep, and wrangled four kids through the airport. I've got bags under my eyes and I'm dealing with anxiety," he said on social media.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025

Kelton smiles, revealing that his braces are off and his teeth have been wrangled artificially straight.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The agreement between Britain and the European Union to remove the border controls was signed on Tuesday in Brussels after years of wrangling following the UK's exit from the bloc in 2020.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

We’re wrangling a lot of very needy creative egos.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Last month the Commerce Department blocked Anthropic from selling its state-of-the-art models abroad owing to national security concerns and it took weeks of wrangling to resolve this impasse.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Despite this, it took months of legal wrangling for the BBC to obtain the footage.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

She was so tired she didn’t entirely trust herself to make the climb over the gables, not after two nights without sleep and a day spent wrangling supplies for their trek to the Ice Court.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo