Verb (used with object) : to wangle an invitation. ,to wangle business records.    From Dictionary.com. 

As we had, by the process known in the army as "wangling," acquired sufficient tents and marquees for.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

After the issue we were split up into four lots for the four companies of the battalion, and after some "wangling" I got into.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference

Furthermore, wangling an invite to Augusta National is almost impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing Augusta as a Mortal] Reference

With Mr. Dominy's wangling, the proposed high-rise was authorized as a dam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Floyd E. Dominy, 100; bureaucrat helped build dams] Reference

Through a political wangling the CP (Conservative Party) was formed to stop the HNP.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Some retired bureaucrats are even wangling their way into jobs with information commissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paper Chase] Reference

Still too young to assume any kind of leadership, he was wangling a living however he could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

But, after a lot of wangling, I did get myself attached to the Seventh Army, as they marched into Munich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference

Already we observe the piranha swarm of green lobbyists wangling special exemptions, subsidies and side deals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indiana Says 'No Thanks' to Cap and Trade] Reference

Counsel Alberto Gonzalez from wangling a signature from the heavily-sedated patient to re-authorize domestic eavesdropping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Atran: The Moral Failure of Our National Intelligence] Reference

From their mountain hideaway, the Karen engineer their salvation by wangling their own reality television show, "Junglemaniacs!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: A Lighter Look at Suffering] Reference

With a bit of wangling they will insure your freight free and if you bring in steel you have it carted virtually without charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]

They do that by shifting the bodies into eccentric orbits osculating Secunda's, then wangling them into planetary orbit at the far end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inconstant Star]

According to Gordon, this policy would have proven disastrous to indie labels, who don't have someone on staff dedicated to wangling radio airplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indie Music Takes on the Majors] Reference

Which meant he had to come up with an idea for wangling his way out of going to that opening without wangling his way entirely out of Lauren's life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sully's Kids]

Other studies show a lot of self-reported data on how mother-headed households try to make up for absent fathers by wangling the help of male relatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question For Joe Killian] Reference

For every type of site listed above, repeat visitors is a definite, positive indicator of health—no wangling about with percentages and use cases here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogging for Writers: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Bounce Rates | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference

Getting someone else to do games duty wasn't only the accepted way of wangling Wednesday afternoons off, it was also the coin in which favours were paid for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

As I presented "His Highness, the Raja Goolab Singh", I could almost read Hardinge's mind: conspiracy, he was thinking, the little bugger's been wangling a 99-year lease on the Khyber Pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]

She had known that a scientist able to engage esp'link with a correspondingly equipped mechanical had a tremendous advantage over colleagues in wangling important and interesting assignments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Hole]

Selfe said the allegations of tender wangling between the department and Sondolo IT were another serious blow to a department already struggling to overcome a negative image as far as corruption was concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

More plausibly, he saw the vacuum left by Reagan and had the ego to think he could fill it, wangling the nomination by 1996 or winding up, even in defeat, as a significant, perhaps independent, force on the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Is Buchanan So Angry?] Reference

So, one beautiful September morning I left Srinagar, the capital of J&K, wangling a ride with an Army Signals major in his jeep proceeding to Leh as a part of an Army convoy, the then district headquarters of Ladakh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kargil - as I remember it] Reference

Dammit, seekerofsplendor, you ruin a perfectly good post about the universe by wangling about various people's imaginary friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference

So here’s Marshall Goldman, wangling an invitation as houseguest of the U.S. ambassador in January.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Principals] Reference

It took me three months of long-distance wangling, cajoling, coaxing, and threatening, but by May I’d gotten myself detailed back to Little Creek and assigned to SEAL Team Two as a squad leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]

Parents along CPW have more reason to worry about wangling a table at Per Se, or getting on the right benefit committee, than about whether their son's National Guard unit will be dispatched overseas.).    From Wordnik.com.  [What's the Matter With Central Park West?] Reference

We had secured it only after much "wangling.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Padre in France] Reference

He's always right in there wangling for his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference

‘influence’ and ‘wangling’ and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maid in Waiting] Reference