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come to grips



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Only afterwards did he have a moment to come to grips with his life-changing performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Those are realities that the media, the activist community and people in government need to come to grips with.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

Because, for veterans of modern warfare, the question isn’t how to come to grips with something that befell us in the manner of a natural disaster.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2026

U.S. companies and the federal government haven’t come to grips with Americans’ longer lives, Stern says.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025

In the meantime, he had finally come to grips with what had happened in his life and what hadn’t.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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