dealt
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He’d recently been nervous about starting a new activity, but he’d persevered, and so I said to him, “I’m proud of how well you dealt with that challenge.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
We’ve been dealt a nigh-unbearable hand when two of our communities were utterly savaged by fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Having dealt with the minutiae of the tactical approach he switched and started to deal with the emotion of the day.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
The two clubs with most to mull over after seeing their top-four hopes dealt a blow are Liverpool and Chelsea.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
Hope for Children was a stupid name, but he was relieved, somehow, that it wasn’t the Happy Family Adoption Agency, the same one that Chip’s family had dealt with.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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