coping

Example Sentences

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My only coping mechanism was to give up trying and read.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Now it has spread to a forested area where health workers, who are already coping with short supplies and local suspicions, dare not venture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The egomania and the fabulism are coping mechanisms that will grow more extreme under pressure.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Their anxieties don't weigh the book down, though - the characters' coping strategy is to process them with a heavy dose of flippant humour, or switch focus to the night's more immediate desires and dramas.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Once riders were down on the course, tracks had virtually no protocol for coping with their injuries.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand