as in doing
to meet one's day-to-day needs
a young man learning to cope on his own at college
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Recent Examples of coping
And so this is a coping mechanism.
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Will Carless, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Researchers can investigate coping strategies and resources that empower Black and Hispanic teens and their parents, and evaluate their effectiveness in supporting adolescent well-being.
—Alvin Thomas, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
When summer arrives in Phoenix, city officials respond to the needs of an urban population coping with rising temperatures.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Help teams understand how devices hijack attention and become addictive coping mechanisms.
—Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
There are many efforts underway by AI scholars, research labs, and AI makers to devise AI so that the AI can do a better job at coping with human delusional thinking.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The film takes its name from a story that Manfred relied on as a means of coping with childhood bullies, about a tribe of vikings who each cut off one of their arms in order to make one brother who lost his arm in battle feel less alone.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Seek out a therapist who specializes in chronic illness and can provide coping tools.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Aug. 2025
Alcohol became his coping mechanism.
—Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
Will Carless, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Researchers can investigate coping strategies and resources that empower Black and Hispanic teens and their parents, and evaluate their effectiveness in supporting adolescent well-being.
—Alvin Thomas, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
When summer arrives in Phoenix, city officials respond to the needs of an urban population coping with rising temperatures.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Help teams understand how devices hijack attention and become addictive coping mechanisms.
—Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
There are many efforts underway by AI scholars, research labs, and AI makers to devise AI so that the AI can do a better job at coping with human delusional thinking.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
The film takes its name from a story that Manfred relied on as a means of coping with childhood bullies, about a tribe of vikings who each cut off one of their arms in order to make one brother who lost his arm in battle feel less alone.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
Seek out a therapist who specializes in chronic illness and can provide coping tools.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Aug. 2025
Alcohol became his coping mechanism.
—Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coping
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Along the top of the fire, the crews continue working slowly parallel with, and sometimes on, the McKinley Grove Road, doing clearing vegetation by hand, applying pre-treatment, and conducting critical strategic firing operations to remove heavy vegetation in front of the active fire front.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Present them with advice and encouragement and then present them with a reward for doing it, the T-shirt and the medal and the photographs.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Despite daunting market conditions, America’s youngest generation of adults is managing to break into the housing market in growing numbers.—
Sara Chernikoff,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Fire containment Containment is part of a larger plan for managing a wildfire.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Ian Wilkinson, a pastor at a local church and the sole surviving guest of the lunch, told last month's hearing that the death of his wife had left him bereft.—
Alasdair Pal,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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The courtroom thriller dramatizes the first international tribunal against surviving Nazi leaders, probing not only their crimes but also the nature of evil itself.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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Schools faring poorly tend to be focused on small groups of students who have already fallen behind.—
Krista Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
20 Aug. 2025
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Johnson, at the Urban Institute, maintains that many seniors are faring a bit worse this year in terms of inflation than the general population.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Coping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coping. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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