came to grips with

With Lorde’s help, Edim came to grips with the fact that she was now truly motherless — coincidentally, while she was on a plane to Nigeria to reconnect with her father and become, after more than a decade of separation, “somebody’s child once more.”

She came to grips with the local pandemic.

D’Avanzo, retired from his job with the Federal Reserve, is a fan and greeted him warmly once he came to grips with the situation.

I came to grips with that reality in August, when my mother died from an unexpected illness.

Bed Bath & Beyond did not invest enough in e-commerce, and it never came to grips with the lethal combination of declining in-store sales while holding on to the vast expenses associated with having more than 300 outlets.