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cope

[kohp] / koʊp /


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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

The Lineage cold-storage warehouse fire broke out in June, causing communities on L.A.’s Eastside to cope with the stench of rotting meat for two months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"I didn't feel like I could cope with not having any tool to deal with it," she tells BBC Radio 4's Scam Secrets.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Schools across the country dispatched social workers to “help young people cope with what they’re hearing,” but in the hallways of Shaker Heights High School, the mood was hilarity rather than trauma.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The 42-year-old says he copes with his trauma by sharing his story with other victims and the public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

But if he gets a chance, it will be instructive for United's coaches to see how he copes with senior opponents.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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

A white-robed choir with green velvet copes filed in, singing long chants.

From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger

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

Network Rail will face scrutiny for how its systems coped and responded to the outage.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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

In the early years of my boyhood, my parents coped very well in America.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

Plants would need help accessing limited resources while also coping with harsh growing conditions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

"I think we were coping relatively well with the homeless people, the volumes of homeless people that were coming through before the UK government changed that there," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Read more about how young adults are coping with today’s economy in MarketWatch’s coverage of the New American Playbook.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

As we faced days of grueling punishment, I was also coping with the fact that despite the newspaper article, we had heard no word from the North Little Rock school administrators about Mama’s job.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals




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