How to Use get to grips with in a Sentence

get to grips with

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• Sonnenfeld pointed to earlier studies that suggest that CEOs picked from within take half as long to get to grips with the job.
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 14 Nov. 2025
• The confusion in the ground as Spurs went to take the corner was palpable — proving that Dubravka wasn’t the only person grappling to get to grips with the change.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
• Working with a broadcasting code that was drawn up decades ago, Ofcom has been trying and failing to get to grips with these issues almost since GB News launched four years back.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
• The brutal death of Sean Astin’s Bob, as witnessed by Winona Ryder’s screaming Joyce, is genuinely horrific, after which our heroes get to grips with their nemesis and communicate with Will via Morse code.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2025
• Of course, there is an array of issues for Arne Slot to get to grips with and they have been well documented and analysed on The Athletic following those painful setbacks at the hands of Crystal Palace, Galatasaray and Chelsea.
  — James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025