wangle
verb (used with object)
to bring about, accomplish, or obtain by scheming or underhand methods.
has wangled
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present perfectof wangle (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The one element of his life that sparkles, at least intermittently, is that he has wangled his way into a job with West Berlin’s celebrity architect and theorist, the gaudily named N. I. Rosen-Montag.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
Somehow she has wangled a meeting with a West Coast publisher.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2015
The tears run down my cheeks and the tears run down his cheeks and the next thing I know, he has wangled another $50 million out of me.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2013
So we should not be surprised that this most seminal of anchors has wangled a new job for himself just two weeks after resigning from Sky.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2011
After three years at Albany Governor Roosevelt points with pride to a mass of useful legislation he has wangled out of a hostile Legislature with soft words and threats.
From Time Magazine Archive
