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come to terms

verb as in meet halfway

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For the last few years, the 62-year-old has been trying to work out how to come to terms with simultaneous extreme success and debilitating grief.

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Officers will support their surviving family members "as they come to terms with this tragedy", he added.

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Supt Watters added they would also support the Drumgowna community "as they come to terms with the violent death of their neighbours".

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“The Details” struggles to come to terms with someone’s one-sided point of view — “No matter how clear I keep the memories,” Shires sings with fragility, “he rewrites them so he can sleep” — while “Not Feeling Anything” captures a unique post-heartbreak numbness, when, as Shires sings on “Lately,” “the silence is too noisy and the music is too loud.”

"At this time, we kindly ask for privacy as we come to terms with life without him. In the days and weeks ahead, we will take strength from one another and from the knowledge that Richard's legacy - both in boxing and as a man - will continue to live on."

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

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