coped

past tense of cope

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of coped As a teen growing up in an abusive household, Morgan coped daily with physical and emotional harm from her mother. Laura Schwab Reese, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025 More than a year after the strike, commuters have been subject to daily traffic delays along east-west interstates while businesses have coped with a sustained decline in revenue. Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coped
Verb
  • Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, nor did HUD officials.
    Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The two men then said Smollett paid them to stage the attack, and Smollett was charged with filing a false police report; the charges were later dropped after Smollett paid a fine and did community service.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Liverpool have not managed to string together two or three consecutive good performances.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, 35 rooms at the Civic and other shelters that CoLEAD managed sat empty as of December 2024.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Oxy barely survived the downturn, slashing its dividend from 79 cents per share each quarter down to just one penny.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Only 13 of the 62 crew members survived.
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The 2025 State of Mental Health in America report sizes up how all 50 states and Washington, DC, fared on 17 measures of mental health in 2022 and 2023, according to Mental Health America, which published the report on Wednesday.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Indeed, the likes of Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan have expressed their surprise and optimism given that American consumers have fared so well in the past couple of years, and have continued to drive the economy as a result.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Coped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coped. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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