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  • n  an angry dispute
  • n  an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  • v  to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively
    The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street
  • v  herd and care for
    wrangle horses

  • Much of the credit for that goes to the chief lizard wrangler.
  • Strang's lead publication, Charisma, chronicles the fast-growing charismatic movement and has become powerful enough to wrangle a Bush interview last year.
  • The film, budgeted at $100 million and the object of a rights wrangle between Warner Bros.
News & Articles

  • Brennan Rocks the Boat With Deputy CIA Pick
    Let’s say you’re the newly appointed head of the CIA and you’re plotting a strategy to wrangle the famously unruly work force. Now imagine your deputy, a widely-admired CIA veteran, announces he’s going to step down after 33 years of hard service. What do you do? You could replace him from within the Agency ranks—that’s a surefire crowd pleaser. Or you could tap an experienced former ...
    June 14, 2013 - Swampland
  • Defense Industry Focused on Sequestration
    No one has been able to successfully wrangle Congress into reaching a grand bargain to reduce the deficit. But it’s not for lack of trying.
    June 13, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News
  • Inside the Beltway: Unifying conservatives by 2014
    Organizers behind the bodacious "Road to Majority" conference are determined to wrangle conservatives onto the same page as the 2014 midterm elections loom. The event, virtually ignored so far by the mainstream press, begins Thursday at a hotel just three blocks from the White House. "This conference is a chance ...
    June 13, 2013 - The Washington Times
Quotes

  • Jacob Zuma in Independent Online
    The judge said...... this is a political wrangle,Zuma said to loud cheers.
  • AJ Pierzynski in Chicago Sun-Times
    I'm friendly with Oney,Pierzynski said. "I hope he can still wrangle up the money to go to Wrestlemania with me now that he's out of a job." "You never want to see stuff like that made public and become a pissing match in the...
  • Aamir Sohail in Times of India
    What was the haste in going into a costly wrangle when the result was a foregone conclusion. Whereas the Host Agreement does not say that in case of relocation of matches the host country will be stripped of hosting and participating fee,...

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