come to grips with
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
Ultimately, it shows us something that we as a nation had better come to grips with sooner rather than later.
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2026
U.S. companies and the federal government, meanwhile, haven’t yet come to grips with Americans’ longer lives, Stern says.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025
Meanwhile, in Utah, witnesses, law enforcement and state and local leaders continue to come to grips with the trauma of the day.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
The first people really to come to grips with this were Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, as they worked on their world map of 1507 and the accompanying Introduction to Cosmography.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
