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Brent crude prices shot back above $100 a barrel this week as oil-hungry sectors across the world came to grips with a closure that is lasting much longer than originally feared.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

She came to grips with the local pandemic.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

And as the nation came to grips with the numbing truth of how shabby technology had brought on the disaster, the media slowly turned to other bitter legacies of the past.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022

“I think I finally came to grips with being in my mid-40s by being in ‘Stranger Things.’”

From Fox News • Feb. 25, 2020

For, as soon as they came to grips with the problem, they found that it was impossible to handle it effectively without reconstituting the general fabric of industrial relationships which is its setting.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.



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