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Parents and doctors have been grappling with chaos and confusion since the changes were made and growing especially concerned about how insurance companies will cover immunisations long considered important to public health.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

For more than three years, Chinese tech companies have been grappling with U.S. export controls that prevent Nvidia from selling top-of-the-line AI chips such as the Blackwell series directly to China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Jews have been grappling with the relationship between visibility and belonging for generations.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

Investors and companies have been grappling with uncertainty around trade policy since the administration rolled out sweeping tariffs on April 2 and then recalibrated them.

From Barron's • Sep. 30, 2025

On the former occasion he looked like an irritable in-door pet: on the latter, he seemed to have been grappling with the world, and to have got vigor by it.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various