come to grips
Example Sentences
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If that special story is wrong, he said, the Fed has “to come to grips with that” by acknowledging rates may not be high enough to bring down inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Because, for veterans of modern warfare, the question isn’t how to come to grips with something that befell us in the manner of a natural disaster.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026
U.S. companies and the federal government haven’t come to grips with Americans’ longer lives, Stern says.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025
“I’m hoping that they’ll come to grips with how the American people are suffering,” said another.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025
Hence Toynbee did not pose Yali’s question, nor did he come to grips with what I see as history’s broadest pattern.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
