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Brent crude prices shot back above $100 a barrel this week as oil-hungry sectors across the world came to grips with a closure that is lasting much longer than originally feared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

She came to grips with the local pandemic.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2024

But O’Neal came to grips with his health when his doctor asked him, according to Men’s Health, a simple question: Do you want to die?

From Fox News ● Dec. 17, 2021

And then: As this town came to grips with what had happened, billowing clouds of smoke began to fill the skyline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2018

Freedom of thought once came to grips with absolute power.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton


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