come to terms

1. Reach an agreement, as in The landlord and his tenants soon came to terms regarding repairs . [Early 1700s]

2. come to terms with . Reconcile oneself to, as in He'd been trying to come to terms with his early life . [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

"We would like to ask for privacy during this incredibly difficult time to allow us to come to terms with what has occurred and grieve for the loss of Peter," they added.

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I've come to terms with my baldness now and I prefer to be bald than balding.

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Disney DIS 1.45%increase; green up pointing triangle channels including ESPN, ABC and FX vanished from Google’s YouTube TV platform after the two sides failed to come to terms on a new distribution agreement.

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Ando thinks all research universities need to come to terms with what they’re selling and whether it still makes sense.

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A climactic passage finds the narrator-playwright trying to come to terms with her decisions and those of her mother—whether a fulfilling family life can ever be wholly consistent with a woman’s true autonomy as society is structured, then and now.

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