come to grips with
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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
“I’m hoping that they’ll come to grips with how the American people are suffering,” said another.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025
Such activities established a new confidence in the power of mathematics to come to grips with nature, and this chapter follows this process through to Galileo.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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