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
In the latest season, still coping with the emotional fallout of his wife’s passing, Jimmy is now about to become an empty nester as his daughter readies her path to college.
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Khaby Lame started posting videos on TikTok in 2020 as a coping mechanism after being laid off from his factory machine labor job at the onset of the pandemic.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
People had a hard time coping with that.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
In season three of Shrinking (which premieres on January 28), coping with a Parkinson’s diagnosis fuels Fox’s storyline opposite Harrison Ford, who plays a therapist living with the degenerative brain disease.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Inside athletic departments across the country, executives are coping with financial impacts driven by the death of amateurism in high-level college sports.
—David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
Another study, from 2022, found mental health memes such as those about anxiety, depression and other psychiatric conditions can serve as a coping mechanism.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
This might especially be pertinent when asking the client about their current coping strategies.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
How to wind down Evidence suggests that mental relief comes not from adding new coping strategies, but from reducing the number of demands placed on the brain.
—Robin Pickering, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Khaby Lame started posting videos on TikTok in 2020 as a coping mechanism after being laid off from his factory machine labor job at the onset of the pandemic.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
People had a hard time coping with that.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
In season three of Shrinking (which premieres on January 28), coping with a Parkinson’s diagnosis fuels Fox’s storyline opposite Harrison Ford, who plays a therapist living with the degenerative brain disease.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Inside athletic departments across the country, executives are coping with financial impacts driven by the death of amateurism in high-level college sports.
—David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
Another study, from 2022, found mental health memes such as those about anxiety, depression and other psychiatric conditions can serve as a coping mechanism.
—Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
This might especially be pertinent when asking the client about their current coping strategies.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
How to wind down Evidence suggests that mental relief comes not from adding new coping strategies, but from reducing the number of demands placed on the brain.
—Robin Pickering, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coping
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The producers and the author were doing kind of book events and the lines were like several times around the block.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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On a crowded concourse in the middle of a Saturday morning two months before the start of the season, fans are chugging beers, scarfing Dodger dogs, and even doing a line dance.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Experts recommend managing chronic stress with mindfulness, meditation and consistent physical activity to help lower cortisol levels and support healthier metabolic function and weight regulation, per Cleveland Clinic.—
Shiv Sudhakar,
FOXNews.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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Peterson, who missed the last game due to an ankle sprain and is still managing cramping issues, played 20 minutes, with just three coming in the second half.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
1 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Located on Glasgow’s main shopping street, Mackintosh at the Willow is the only surviving tea room designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Kernodle had been stabbed so many times that her surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen initially identified her as Goncalves when questioned by police.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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McKinnon, unfortunately, isn’t equipped to carry the drama of her space-faring section, in which the numerous plants on board begin to succumb to a mysterious pathogen.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2026
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Two years later, as Israel makes a mockery of the ceasefire in Gaza, the last surviving great European thinker has sunken into a complicit silence, and other pillars of the postwar West are not faring better.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Coping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coping. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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