coping

Example Sentences

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My only coping mechanism was to give up trying and read.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Now it has spread to a forested area where health workers, who are already coping with short supplies and local suspicions, dare not venture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The egomania and the fabulism are coping mechanisms that will grow more extreme under pressure.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

For Catriona, the daily roller coaster of coping with the death of her husband has been worsened by the legal limbo she now finds herself in.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

See how one chamber grows out of another; see how the court is tight with wall and coping; no man at arms could break this gateway down!

From "The Odyssey" by Homer