Tom Hiddleston

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?

English Actor

Lionel Shriver

During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination.

American Journalist

Lord Byron

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

British Poet

Muhammad Ali

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.

American Boxer

Marton Csokas

I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing.

New Zealander Actor

Tibor Fischer

Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesn't come any more marked than here.

British Novelist

Holly Hunter

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

American Actress

Sushant Singh Rajput

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

Indian Actor

Channing Tatum

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

American Actor

Often implies a shoving or wrestling match without serious harm.

Physical Confrontation

Mainly used in casual or informal situations, not in formal texts.

Informal Context

A tussle is less intense than a full-blown fight and often brief.

Not a Full Fight

When used as a verb, it can indicate playful fighting, not serious aggression.

Playful Struggle

May imply competition for an object or position.

Competitive Edge

Signals effort and active participation in the struggle.

Effort Involved

 I didn't even respond. I just punched him right in his face, and we began fighting right then and there. Towards the end of the fight, he slammed me up against the wall, so while we were tussled up, he said to me, "You good?" as if he got the best of me,

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 more than their fair share of resources from the mother. This evolutionary conflict of interests places a woman and her unborn child in a biological tug-of-war that plays out inside the womb. One factor contributing to this internal tussle

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 Like, not necessarily done to decrease animal suffering per se, but maybe to help one's health. But that is not the argument we came to have today. No siree, Bob. I see some sweet-spot minds looking to tussle.

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 behavior called jaw clapping this is a clear visual and audible threat after the threat comes the tussle including a pretty nasty tail bite yep conflict and violence everyday life from bottlenose

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 behavior called jaw clapping this is a clear visual and audible threat after the threat it comes the tussle including a pretty nasty tail bite yep conflict and violence everyday life from

 so you can see now you can see that it's lions are just very very much relaxed as I have indicators see they the female is starting to wave the tail they can see the tussle of the tail

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 the beetle attacks and grabs the lake the tussle turns into a tug of war neither giving an inch and then the daddy longlegs reveals a nifty life-saving mechanism a quick-release

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 is probably how it's been with leopards across most of India a constant tussle over livestock but few attacks on people

Tussle

Physical Confrontation

Informal Context

Not a Full Fight

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