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His son tackled him and wrested the gun away.
Trump has floated annexing Canada multiple times in the last year, including it in an expansionist plan that also includes wresting control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has wrested control of the federal government from career civil servants in the early days of Donald Trump's second term.
Three years later, a US-backed coalition in alliance with the Iraqi army and state-linked militias mounted an intense ground and air offensive to wrest the city back from IS control.
She said that the order to freeze approved spending “attempted to wrest the power of the purse away from the only branch of government entitled to wield it.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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