come to grips with

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come to grips with (third-person singular simple present comes to grips with, present participle coming to grips with, simple past came to grips with, past participle come to grips with)

  1. (idiomatic) To confront or deal with directly; to commence a confrontation.
    Until she comes to grips with her mother's death, she has no hope of putting it behind her.
    • 2023 July 15, Brooks Barnes, quoting Robert A. Iger, “In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      On Thursday, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, put the sale of the company’s “noncore” channels, including ABC and FX, on the table. He called the decline in traditional television “a reality we have to come to grips with.”

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