dealt with

VERB

handle, manage

Synonyms

WEAK

act approach attend to behave behave toward clear concern conduct oneself consider control cope with direct discuss get a handle on something hack it handle have to do with live with make a go of it make it oversee play review rid see to serve take take care of treat unburden use

Antonyms

WEAK

mismanage

Example Sentences

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dealt with

“I don’t think I ever dealt with that until after he passed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Jay Stewart had previous convictions and matters dealt with by the Children's Hearings.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

There, one song evoked a musical conception he had imagined but never achieved—“it dealt with space, and a logic that rhymed and was almost obtuse,” Mr. Batiste once told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“They move faster than anyone I’ve ever dealt with, especially in hardware, which typically moves really slowly,” O’Shaughnessy said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

In theory, they were even given equal pay to men—an issue that wasn’t dealt with in law until 1963 in the United States and 1970 in the United Kingdom.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein