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come to grips with

VERB
deal with
Synonyms
WEAK
bear bite the bullet brace brave confront contend cope with endure face go to the mat grapple with make a stand stomach suffer sustain take withstand

Example Sentences

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Ultimately, it shows us something that we as a nation had better come to grips with sooner rather than later.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

So trust me when I say that I can’t quite come to grips with my new habit, one that I’m hugely embarrassed to be admitting in public.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2025

Palmer is only starting to come to grips with that.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

The first people really to come to grips with this were Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann, as they worked on their world map of 1507 and the accompanying Introduction to Cosmography.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton