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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

And the disinherited playboy, at the end, has wangled twenty grand, only to spurn it.

From Time Magazine Archive