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Verb: pull wires
Usage: N. Amer
  1. Influence or control shrewdly or deviously
    "The lobbyist pulled wires to get the legislation passed";
    - manipulate, pull strings [informal]

Derived forms: pulled wires, pulls wires, pulling wires

Type of: act upon, influence, work