as in bickered
to express different opinions about something often angrily
a town meeting at which local residents wrangled for hours about property taxes
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The district was one of several seats in California seen as pivotal in the fight for control of Congress, and was one of three in the state that Democrats wrangled from Republican control.
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Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
But their operations were later suspended as the Koreas wrangled over North Korea’s nuclear program and other issues.
—Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
The idea for the Highwaymen came about in 1984 when Cash wrangled Nelson, Kristofferson, and Jennings to film Cash’s Christmas special in Montreux, Switzerland.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2016
Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
But their operations were later suspended as the Koreas wrangled over North Korea’s nuclear program and other issues.
—Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
The idea for the Highwaymen came about in 1984 when Cash wrangled Nelson, Kristofferson, and Jennings to film Cash’s Christmas special in Montreux, Switzerland.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2016
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“Wrangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrangled. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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