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come to terms

verb as in capitulate

verb as in meet halfway

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“I have to come to terms with what’s more important for our children and for our family,” said De Mars.

So Tuesday’s joint statement marks a shift for Germany, which has come to terms with the idea of balancing deregulation with a degree of protection for homegrown players as it looks for new ways to lift its economy out of a yearslong recession.

In the film, which tells the story of a female K-Pop trio who must save the world from evil forces, Rumi has to come to terms with her identity as part human, part demon - and when Cho first read the script this resonated powerfully.

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“When I was younger, I didn’t really want to come to terms with it. I didn’t want to wear my hearing aids all the time. I didn’t want to use my accommodations. I denied I had it and acted like I could go through my life without my hearing aids. As I got older, I realized I can’t hear without them..”

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Google’s YouTube TV has been unable to come to terms with Disney over the price of carrying the media giant’s networks.

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

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