come to grips with
Example Sentences
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Fairley has had to come to grips with the new reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
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
Hence Toynbee did not pose Yali’s question, nor did he come to grips with what I see as history’s broadest pattern.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
