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  • noun Plural form of wrangler.

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Examples

  • My own main worry was about finding our car in the melee after the show, but soon learned that well-trained kids—called wranglers—kept track of the limos and got us to ours safely.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Yes, there are lexicographers in Jack Lynch's book, but it's really a history of English peevology, populated by word wranglers as different as John Dryden and

    Boston Globe -- Ideas section Jan Freeman 2010

  • Among the wranglers are a devious prince with a secret (Sebastian Stan), a beautiful princess with a secret vow (Allison Miller), a duplicitous brother-in-law (Dylan Baker), and two more biblically influenced characters: the prophet Samuels (Eamonn Walker) and General Abner (Wes Studi).

    Mishmash that is 'Kings' often overpowers an interesting idea 2009

  • … then click on the Letter to the Editor on the left hand side and go to typ'n! yee haw! the wranglers is a comin '!!!

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

  • For a degree it was sufficient to do Part I and Part II: the famous "wranglers" are those who are in the first class in Part II.

    James A. Mirrlees - Autobiography 1997

  • I think it was a crucial leap: to talk about "wranglers" rather than "end-users".

    UgoTrade 2009

  • I think it was a crucial leap: to talk about "wranglers" rather than "end-users".

    UgoTrade 2009

  • So the kinds of questions I've turned to him for regard how to nudge people away from being "end users" and towards being "wranglers"; and about how to transition from being a "hacker toy" to "major infrastructure".

    UgoTrade 2009

  • After the dog and pony show, the devices were behind glass cases, and face time with the product nearly impossible, with crowds of media cognoscenti dying for that minute or two of handling the device, circling around the product execs cum Kindle-wranglers like hungry wolves.

    Amazon: You Blew It. 2009

  • After the dog and pony show, the devices were behind glass cases, and face time with the product nearly impossible, with crowds of media cognoscenti dying for that minute or two of handling the device, circling around the product execs cum Kindle-wranglers like hungry wolves.

    09 « February « 2009 « Off The Broiler 2009

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  • During the nineteenth century, mathematical education at British Universities was largely oriented towards preparing students for the Tripos examinations. Those who placed in the first class were known as Wranglers, and were assured of a successful future in any profession. Those who placed in the second and third classes were known as Senior and Junior Optimes.

    September 24, 2008