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come to grips
verb as in lock horns
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Example Sentences
Democrats are already engaged in considerable soul-searching, as they come to grips with an election defeat that has delivered the White House, the Senate and, perhaps, the House of Representatives to Republican control.
The next day, the shellshocked parents struggled to come to grips with the financial toll of the incident and the catastrophic sentimental loss.
He is coming to grips, finally, with the structure of how things operate and his place within that structure.
I’m still trying to come to grips with the fact that thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies blew up simultaneously in Lebanon killing and injuring hundreds of people.
It’s hard for me to come to grips with a lot of people being familiar with me.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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