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
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
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 haven’t come to grips with Americans’ longer lives, Stern says.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025
At this point, I had already come to grips with the fact that this group project was going to be a Patty project.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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