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learn to live with

Idioms  
  1. Get used to or accustom oneself to something that is painful, annoying, or unpleasant. For example, The doctor said nothing more could be done about improving her sight; she'd just have to learn to live with it, or Pat decided she didn't like the new sofa but would have to learn to live with it.


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“The choice is between accepting that your own power has limits and that you’ll have to learn to live with some bad guys, or risk dissipating your power and the domestic roots that sustain it in the interest of turning the world into one of angels,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The grief part, you learn to live with it," said Kate.

From BBC

This marks another effort by Carney, a former central banker and Goldman Sachs banker, to place close associates with business experience and dealmaking prowess in key roles designed to help rewire a Canadian economy that must now learn to live with a protectionist U.S. administration.

From The Wall Street Journal

For Schwab’s strategists, investors will simply have to learn to live with stubborn inflation.

From MarketWatch

"I'm still trying to learn to live with it and not having any answers makes me angry."

From BBC