Verb (used without object) : He was grappling with a boy twice his size. ,to grapple with a problem. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The thug grappled him around the neck. From Dictionary.com.
Roberts: McCain grapples with major fundraising challenge. From Wordnik.com. [McCain buying Michigan, Pennsylvania airtime] Reference
Here he was already locked in grapples with the great Guggenhammers, and winning, fiercely winning. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XIII] Reference
Ezra Klein grapples with Tom Daschle’s withdrawal. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Daschle Postmortem] Reference
She said she "grapples" with carrying personal responsibility for Baby P's death every day and had even considered suicide. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Ms Shoesmith, 55, told Radio 4's Woman's Hour that she "grapples" with carrying personal responsibility for his death every day. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
He wished he had the metamagnetic hand grapples with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
He grapples with the questions of the hour, handling even. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
The White House grapples with the idea of reaching out to Iran. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2009] Reference
There were two distant clangs as magnetic grapples hit the hull. From Wordnik.com. [The Misplaced Battleship] Reference
Life springs to the rescue, and again grapples with her adversary. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
For another, he could have dropped the grapples somewhere as a decoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
All that and more as Wall Street grapples with a global reversal of fortune. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2008] Reference
But what is fairly new is the way it grapples with modern cultural divisions. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit of Invention Defines Björk's 'Volta'] Reference
There were ropes, picks, and crampons, and sets of metamagnetic boots and grapples. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
It's the kind of word that Michiko Kakutani's readership grapples with successfully. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Sun's Use Of English Language Confuses Readership] Reference
Dupont slashing 3,500 positions as it grapples with the higher raw materials prices. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2004] Reference
This is a tough blow for Schwarzenegger as he grapples with the state budget crisis. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010] Reference
Your set-up piece noted accurately the very serious poverty that Yemen grapples with. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 06, 2010] Reference
It will, however, soon be among things visible, for the missionary has his grapples out. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889] Reference
You talked about the monumental task awaiting Governor Ridge, one he grapples with daily. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2001] Reference
She grapples with her almost godly powers — and unbearable responsibility — as a seer. From Wordnik.com. [A World Gone Blind] Reference
Bjork also grapples with a world that is far less enchanting than her Technicolor imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Life Of Pop Stars] Reference
As Hyundai grapples with its own labor troubles, pink slips may soon arrive in Cheonju as well. From Wordnik.com. [A Strike Too Many] Reference
And as the country and world grapples with the bird flu, Dr. Sanjay Gupta comes face to face with it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2005] Reference
Like Ha Jin, Nan grapples with whether to write in English -- a metaphor for his growing comfort in America. From Wordnik.com. [The Americanization of Ha Jin] Reference
But Bunge cut its full-year profit guidance as it grapples with tight supplies in the global soybean market. From Wordnik.com. [Kellogg's Decline Feeds Fall] Reference
Like Ha Jin, Nan grapples with whether to write in English — a metaphor for his growing comfort in America. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons In English] Reference
Winter 1988Murdoch grapples with Kennedy over rules that prohibit owning a newspaper and TV station in the same city. From Wordnik.com. [Quid Pro Quo?] Reference
Asking such heretical questions is required as Washington grapples with how to restore confidence in the U.S. markets. From Wordnik.com. [A Market Solution That Put Investors in a Fix] Reference
While the White House grapples with the idea of reaching out to Iran, U.S. athletes are grappling and reaching in Tehran. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2009] Reference
In the vigour of his intellect, he grapples with all the objects of nature, and enters into all the relations of social life. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
All this taking place as the U.S. and Congress, and the White House grapples with how many more U.S. troops to send to Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2009] Reference
Potter will need to tap that expertise as he grapples with the logistical fallout from both the anthrax scare and the Sept. 11 attacks. From Wordnik.com. [Occupying The Hot Seat] Reference
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