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View definitions for come to terms

come to terms

verb as in capitulate

verb as in meet halfway

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And so as soon as I realized that was happening, I actually got them to stop filming for about half an hour because I really had to sort of take control back for myself and come to terms of the conditions we were filming under.

“I couldn’t come to terms with it. And at that point, I knew that I had to leave Iran. Either they would arrest me on the set of shooting this film, or the eight-year sentence that my lawyers were thinking would happen would actually become a conviction, and I would have to go to jail,” again.

An Islamic school teacher, Masud Abdulrasheed, is struggling to come to terms with the killing of his seven-year-old daughter in drone strikes by Nigeria's military during a religious festival in their large but sparsely populated village exactly a year ago.

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While Tendai said she was initially able to come to terms with the double bombshell, she said it had become harder as time wore on.

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Concerts by Wild Up at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary and Brightwork newmusic at Monk Space help L.A. audiences come to terms with election results.

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

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