cope
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She said the government, in conjunction with the international organization, had allocated 6.5 million euros of emergency funds to cope with the new arrivals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"It's like a rocket, have we created a monster for next year? Perhaps. It proves the city can cope."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Weingart also sees maintaining healthy soil, with limited weed growth competing for water, as an important way of helping vines cope with extreme heat and drought.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Households could reduce spending temporarily to rebuild their savings after drawing down their bank accounts earlier in the year to cope with another burst of inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn’t learned to cope at all.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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He too copes with blackouts, water shortages, a lack of farming supplies and ever-rising prices.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
The 42-year-old says he copes with his trauma by sharing his story with other victims and the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Since his mom was diagnosed with cancer at 83, Regis has pivoted to acting as what he calls a “capital C caregiver,” as she copes with treatment.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
April Soto, 26, copes with her white-hot rage at life by chanting “dead inside” while listening to ambient noise through her Beats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
Bands of Sans-Culottes defiled through the streets, or passed through the Assembly halls, attired in copes, chasubles and dalmatics which they had pillaged from the churches.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
U.S. airlines and their global peers coped by tweaking capacity, generally cutting down on less popular and profitable flights, and charging more for checked bags and other fees.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
"I didn't grow up with AC," said the Frenchman from the Mediterranean city of Nice, who said his family coped using fans.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Chapman told Dr. Oz that he’d coped with the news by acknowledging it was “a scary situation” but deciding to “face it one way or another.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
That began to change in the 2000s as the Fed coped with the dot-com crash and the aftermath of 9/11.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Then when Mum got home, she ran up and down stairs with cups of tea, flowers and magazines and Mum said she didn’t know how she’d have coped without her.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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"Now over 50% the people who come to us are from the police and a few from the other emergency services as well. They're just not coping."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Now he’s driven to help others coping with violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
"The children are the most stressed. They think the fire is going to burn down the house, but we're coping," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
As a coping mechanism later on, her daughter, now 10 years old, would ask the teacher for permission to take bathroom breaks, time she would then use to take a walk through the hallways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
I used my father’s little coping saw to cut them into circles.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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