come to grips

Example Sentences

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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, meanwhile, haven’t yet come to grips with Americans’ longer lives, Stern says.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

“We haven’t collectively come to grips that that is behind us,” said Hsu.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Events I haven’t come to grips with…that I’ll never come to grips with.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher