come to terms
Idioms-
Reach an agreement, as in The landlord and his tenants soon came to terms regarding repairs . [Early 1700s]
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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
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Carroll told Variety in an interview published Tuesday evening that he has “had a little time to wrap my mind around it and come to terms with it” since he was told in November that his character was going to die.
From Los Angeles Times
Angry, the 60-year-old cannot come to terms with the loss of her daughter Annalee, a little blonde girl in a cowboy hat whose smile lights up the pin attached to the lapel of her jacket.
From Barron's
“The first is “The Longest Way Home,” where I was trying to come to terms with getting married again, where I was asking, how do you maintain intimacy and preserve your inherent solitude?
From Los Angeles Times
"Which was a horrific thing for us to realise, to come to terms with."
From BBC
Hunte, who describes his daughter as "very bubbly and helpful", says he has still not come to terms with how she died.
From BBC
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