cope
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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
I’d been hearing a lot about Ayurvedic herbalism, which has been used in India for thousands of years to help people cope with the heat, among other conditions, naturally and holistically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the short term, cortisol helps the body cope with stressful situations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Other migrants took to sleeping on the streets of residential areas away from the centre of Ceuta as the territory's reception facilities struggled to cope.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Again work helps Vincent cope with sadness in his life.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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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
This gives the heart a bigger job of pumping it around the body and it copes by dialling up the blood pressure - a bit like cranking the tap on a garden hose pipe.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
And even if they are technologically successful, they can only be successful financially if they suppress competition and the economy copes with macro disturbances well.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Authorities caught “some agents hired by Russia to monitor the railway lines,” and the city copes with cyber attacks on a regular basis, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Here also is a cope-chest of the usual shape, which allows the copes to be put away with only one fold.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer
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
Fittingly, it was the world's very best - Scottie Scheffler - who coped as well as anyone.
From BBC ● May 15, 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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Garry Botterill says some police officers are "just not coping"
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
Yet the resumption of fighting has clouded the outlook, especially among manufacturers coping with tariffs, higher energy prices and supply disruptions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The deadly strain 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 ● Jul. 16, 2026
I had by then withdrawn from French class because I wasn’t able to concentrate with the combined pressure of the extremely hostile students and coping with everything else.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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