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cope

[kohp] / koʊp /


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When I ask Mandel whether writing out these alternate realities scares her or helps her to cope, she admits a bit of both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

While awareness of mental health issues has improved, Culvin explained many players felt they were being left to cope alone.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Students have blocked the entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15 to 17-year-olds since late September, complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

There is no shortage of ideas to dredge from this truth, about how we use art to cope, sometimes to our own detriment.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Sorry to say the gun was far too much to cope with following my first ever reportable prang, in a plane I probably shouldn’t have been flying, and I burst into tears.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Mosher copes by working a relentless schedule and filling whatever time remains with projects around the house, “anything to stay busy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

I wanted to see how she copes with the unmasking of perhaps a version of the gay experience that she’s gathered over time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Since his mom was diagnosed with cancer at 83, Regis has pivoted to acting as what he calls a “capital C caregiver,” as she copes with treatment.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

And even if they are technologically successful, they can only be successful financially if they suppress competition and the economy copes with macro disturbances well.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Richard Upton, elected abbot in 1417, gave silk embroidered with falcons for copes; and about the same time John Freston gave a rich robe of Venetian blue embroidered with golden eagles.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies

Rystad Energy said the oil market has coped better than initially expected because of inventories, alternative export routes and shifts in Chinese buying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

U.S. airlines and their global peers coped by tweaking capacity, generally cutting down on less popular and profitable flights, and charging more for checked bags and other fees.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

"I didn't grow up with AC," said the Frenchman from the Mediterranean city of Nice, who said his family coped using fans.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Chapman told Dr. Oz that he’d coped with the news by acknowledging it was “a scary situation” but deciding to “face it one way or another.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Islam became a part of her life after the unexpected death of her oldest son, and religion became the only way she coped with the debilitating grief.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

"The task ahead is to move from coping to rebuilding, restoring fiscal space, and rebuilding supply-side resilience."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Denmark and Sweden are coping better in part thanks to lessons learned from economic crises decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The star noted that she had been trying her best to not break down in public, instead coping with her emotions behind closed doors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Scholars like Dieter Declercq, author of “Satire, Comedy and Mental Health,” have connected stand-up to cognitive coping mechanisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Either I’m finally going senile, or else it’s my mind’s way of coping with being entirely unchallenged in the present.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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