come to terms
Example Sentences
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“The first is “The Longest Way Home,” where I was trying to come to terms with getting married again, where I was asking, how do you maintain intimacy and preserve your inherent solitude?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Angry, the 60-year-old cannot come to terms with the loss of her daughter Annalee, a little blonde girl in a cowboy hat whose smile lights up the pin attached to the lapel of her jacket.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
When we couldn’t come to terms, a withdrawal hearing was held.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026
“The first thing that you have to come to terms with as an actor is being rejected,” Lindo says of the casting process.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
He had struggled a long time with that loss, believed he had resigned himself to it, had come to terms with the fact that old age would be not remembering what things felt like.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
