Noun The suspect was arrested after a tussle with a security guard. a tussle for control of the company The President is in for another tussle with Congress. Verb Two players tussled for the ball. The residents of the neighborhood tussled with city hall for years about the broken parking meters.
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Noun
Amid the legal tussle with Mr. Musk, Twitter has stepped up the pace of launching new features. Salvador Rodriguez, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022 The legal tussle ended in 2019 when the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022 The legal tussle that followed came at a particularly awkward time, when the government was simultaneously making mask-wearing mandatory because of the novel coronavirus, which was first detected here in January.Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020 Tempers flared again in the 78th minute as McGraw earned a yellow card, setting off a tussle between Timbers and Sounders players that never went beyond smack talk and light shoving.oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2022 There were a few bumpy moments between the two teams at Wednesday’s practice, but Stokes’ tussle with Landry set the tone. Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022 The soft power tussle was on show in Africa last month, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov won praise for Moscow’s nuclear power technology. Alan Crawford, Bloomberg.com, 5 Aug. 2022 But Hong Kong has yet to benefit from the tussle, and Jefferies securities analyst Shujin Chen warns that even if the largest firms choose Hong Kong over mainland exchanges, there is no guarantee their debuts will command the same valuations. Clay Chandler, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022 But, a court tussle in 2017 led to a settlement in which biosimilars could not launch until 2023. Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
Verb
The move, which doesn't necessarily signal a forthcoming departure for Cincinnati's striker corps, also would give FCC a play that MLS defenders won't want to tussle with and match-up against. Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 7 July 2022 Flesh and evolutionary functions tussle for supremacy until Frank, in his way, brings it home. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2022 Virtually all modern hoofed mammals use their heads to tussle, including modern giraffes.New York Times, 2 June 2022 Instead, lawmakers are likely to tussle over the details of various amendments that Youngkin has suggested, many of them technical in nature.Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022 On the contrary, Putin's reckless invasion and barbaric siege of major Ukrainian cities have created a global sense of indignity, forcing even governments that are very reluctant to tussle with Moscow to get off the fence. David Faris, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022 As part of the Casino Royale four-episode tournament saw two local chefs tussle it out in the finale. Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2022 Rizvi testified Davis and Thornton began to argue and tussle. Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2022 Originally, Peter and Toomes weren’t supposed to battle until the third act, but the screenwriters felt the characters needed to tussle much sooner. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 Dec. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English (Scots) tussillen, frequentative of Middle English -tusen, -tousen to tousle — more at touse