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to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently
coped with the latest foul-up gracefully
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According to Taylor, the best mask is the one that addresses what your hair actually needs at that moment.—
Lily Wohlner,
Allure,
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Safety through advanced technology Safety remains the primary concern for any personal aircraft, and Plaut addresses this through extreme hardware redundancy.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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Sauve manages all of the city's recycling and waste diversion programs, and he's seen a lot in his more than two decades with the city.—
Tara Molina,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Even though Shane and Ilya don’t suddenly become public and proud gay hockey icons like Scott Hunter by the end of the season, Tierney still manages to fulfill the compensatory and combative requirements of the romance genre through two moving declarations of love.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Unlike end-of-life recycling plants, the CRCC primarily handles unused cells and residues from pilot production.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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ChatGPT handles the thinking work that used to require a whole team.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The virtual machine isolation provides protection against prompt injection even if an attacker manipulates Claude’s behavior.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Also, the fact that Stephen’s not physically intense, necessarily, but moreso manipulates mentally with mind games must bring its own challenges.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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The Table of Contents takes the form of song titles to pair the music, if desired, and (unofficial) Spotify playlists have sprung up to assist.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
25 Jan. 2026
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Even companies with strong brands are finding that adding the next million subscribers takes more time, more money and more effort than the last.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Grief is difficult, as is hawk training, and Lowthorpe’s film treats both with proper reverence.—
Adam Graham,
Boston Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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Social media treats the tree-popping phenomenon as a sign of the apocalypse, but Indigenous peoples have long used the sound of cracking timber to mark the passage of winter.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Copes (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copes%20%28with%29. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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