grapple
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As much as Madonna might love making music, it never gets easier to grapple with the words inside her heart, let alone release them into the public.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
The move comes as authorities in India grapple with a spike in cybercrime, with scammers exploiting low digital safety awareness among millions of internet users.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Housing is one the many big plans Burnham has hinted at to cure our economic malaise, but he has to grapple with a challenging inheritance.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
People who wonder why the cost of Social Security and Medicare keep going up have to grapple mostly with one word: demographics.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
They were left to grapple on their own with a lot of complicated financial theory.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Television City, one of the most famous studios in the entertainment industry where generations of TV shows have been created, is expected to hit the market again as its owner grapples with debt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
A wildfire has forced the evacuation of thousands of people in southern France as the country grapples with the impacts of an early summer heatwave that scorched much of Europe.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Dubai grapples with a postwar recovery after the Iran war, as Jebel Ali port traffic plummeted from 40,000 containers daily to 1,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
“The issue is how well it is managed,” Pacala said, noting that “almost every researcher” with outside funding grapples with such issues.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
As they drew near enough to use their grapples, the captain mounted the rail.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Investors grappled with a fresh bout of concerns that renewed fighting would snarl oil markets and complicate the Fed’s inflation fight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The shift came as the world's biggest economy grappled with fallout from war in the Middle East, while imports of tech goods linked to the country's data center buildout remained strong.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
"I grappled with what was the best thing to do for me, for the country, for the government," Sir Keir said.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Simón, whose previous features “Summer 1993” and “Alcarràs” also grappled with family matters, follows along with Marina on the way to this anxious meeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Snake and Steve grappled like a couple of professional wrestlers.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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Gannon did the rest, bonding with Tahnoon over their shared love of the grappling martial art Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
On a recent Sunday in Tuskegee, parishioners gathered outside Butler Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, grappling with the Supreme Court ruling and their future in the district.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Whether in the U.S. or Europe, defense companies worldwide are grappling with significant backlogs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Since coups in 2020 and 2021, Mali has been led by the military, which promised to restore calm in the vast desert nation that has been grappling with a security crisis since 2012.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
At work, I was still attending all the meetings I always had while also grappling with most of the same responsibilities.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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