Example Sentences

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For nearly a decade, journalists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: Does covering extremists expose them or empower them?

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Producers have wrestled with the twin threats of tariffs, which unsettled the global economy, and competition from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, which pumped new barrels into already well-sated markets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

For more than a decade, scientists have wrestled with the so-called "Galactic Center Excess," an unexpected surge of gamma rays streaming from the Milky Way's heart.

From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025

MPs have a free vote on an issue of profound social change, an issue of conscience where many have wrestled with questions ranging from morality to practicality.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

“It’s so much more important for them to run around the school dropping off messages than be challenged to learn what great mathematicians have wrestled with for a thousand years.”

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt