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The quartet of Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Samuel Dickinson and Beth Potter had jostled with Germany for the lead throughout the race.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024

The compromise over house speaker could help to defuse some tensions between the two biggest parties which had jostled for weeks over the speakership.

From Reuters • Jul. 4, 2023

Perhaps the Patek examination had jostled something: Winding seemed to be all it needed now.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2017

It had jostled against another faction led by Defense Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2011

Then it came to me: the man in the crowd who had jostled me from behind.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood