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come to grips

verb as in lock horns

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“I’m never going to ask anyone to compromise core principles, but preferences must be yielded for the greater good. And that’s what I think people are recognizing and coming to grips with.”

“Climate warming is driving this drying of the Colorado River Basin for the long term, so we really need to come to grips with doing this great rebalancing act,” he said.

I don't think it is going out there and not trying, but, like I said, we didn't really come to grips and have the right mindset to tackle an away fixture in Europe.

From BBC

“I was hoping, praying, doing everything that she would be found, because I could not come to grips to the alternative option,” Carol Wheatley said about her older sister.

It was a touching invitation for a man coming to grips with the destruction of his Pacific Palisades neighborhood, devastated by wildfires.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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