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A four-time winner of the Tour de France and the defending 2024 world champ, Pogacar had maneuvered his bike through all kinds of maniacal scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

For two years, TIFF, the largest film festival in North America, had maneuvered through pandemic editions that persevered, one way or another, through travel restrictions, social distancing measures and other upheavals.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Golitsyn had maneuvered his way within the KGB bureaucracy by refusing foreign assignments and remaining within the spy service headquarters, Angleton said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Mr. Previn resigned the Los Angeles post in 1989, complaining that the orchestra’s managing director, Ernest Fleischmann, had maneuvered to bring in Esa-Pekka Salonen as his successor.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019

Ishmael had maneuvered behind this dead man and taken the sulfa pills and a roll of bandages from the medical kit at his belt.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson