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come to grips with



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

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

If that special story is wrong, he said, the Fed has “to come to grips with that” by acknowledging rates may not be high enough to bring down inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 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, meanwhile, haven’t yet come to grips with Americans’ longer lives, Stern says.

From MarketWatch Dec. 12, 2025

Events I haven’t come to grips with…that I’ll never come to grips with.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher




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