contend with
phrasal verb
contended with; contending with; contends with
: to deal with (something difficult or unpleasant)
Customers should not have to contend with the problems caused by these delays.
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The looming departures add pressure to an industry already contending with 350,000 open positions — a shortfall that’s expected to grow in coming years as the nation ages.
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Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
Captures the unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town that’s become an antebellum tourist destination where layered mosaic of people contend with the weight of the past.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
Both of them — as well as the alternating Bob Dylan and Tom Petty cosplay of Ozark crooner Jesse Welles’s Middle — must contend with a 92-year-old national treasure’s musing on mortality.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
The debate may seem esoteric, given the party brand issues Democrats have contended with and the fact that the 2028 election is still years away.
—Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
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Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
Captures the unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town that’s become an antebellum tourist destination where layered mosaic of people contend with the weight of the past.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
Both of them — as well as the alternating Bob Dylan and Tom Petty cosplay of Ozark crooner Jesse Welles’s Middle — must contend with a 92-year-old national treasure’s musing on mortality.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
The debate may seem esoteric, given the party brand issues Democrats have contended with and the fact that the 2028 election is still years away.
—Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
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“Contend with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contend%20with. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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