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Yet some furniture executives worry that this help from the federal government will do more harm than good to an industry grappling with notoriously thin profit margins, a shortage of skilled workers and whiplash from other tariffs.
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
There’s Miles, a scholar of Russian folktales who can’t focus on his dissertation; his wife Kate, an English professor grappling with an illness; their two children, Olive and Wesley; and their dog Giuseppe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Kapoor’s narrative follows Radha, an 11-year-old child grappling with questions about gender during a family trip to India.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
Pynchon’s absurdism is his way of grappling with and undermining the awful too-muchness and stupidity of it all — especially of the American project and its many tentacles.
—Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
There’s Miles, a scholar of Russian folktales who can’t focus on his dissertation; his wife Kate, an English professor grappling with an illness; their two children, Olive and Wesley; and their dog Giuseppe.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Kapoor’s narrative follows Radha, an 11-year-old child grappling with questions about gender during a family trip to India.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
Pynchon’s absurdism is his way of grappling with and undermining the awful too-muchness and stupidity of it all — especially of the American project and its many tentacles.
—Jack Denton, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Grappling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grappling. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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