COPING Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

coping

verb

Definition of coping

present participle of cope

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 The Sparks have alternated winning and losing streaks while coping with injuries to Kelsey Plum and a porous defense. — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026 France’s main task against Morocco at Gillette Stadium was coping with Achraf Hakimi, the best right-back in the tournament and familiar to the France players who have played club football with him at Paris Saint-Germain. — Michael Cox, New York Times, 10 July 2026 Everyone is coping differently—some through fashion, some by fleeing. — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 10 July 2026 Across Connecticut, families coping with PTSD, chronic pain, depression and treatment-resistant mental health conditions are looking for therapies that offer hope when conventional approaches have fallen short. — John R. Gordon, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026 Josefina, growing up on a New Mexico ranch in the 1820s, is coping with her mother’s death. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 July 2026 Evert remembers being aware of all that Navratilova was coping with, but says competition kept her at a distance. — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 In many cases, Kallis said, the roots of this behavior were planted long before, frequently through trauma, abuse, isolation, addiction or distorted coping mechanisms that were never confronted or healed. — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026 Much of Europe wasn’t built for air-conditioning, or for coping with hot weather at all. — Beth Gardiner, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coping

Verb

An easy way to keep your bones strong is doing weight-bearing exercises.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 16 July 2026
One household’s squeeze may look nothing like its neighbor’s, but trace each far enough back and the same few fractures are doing the work.

— Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of doing

Verb

By managing computing infrastructure for models, Fireworks does business in the inference cloud market, alongside startups such as Baseten and Together AI.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Weinberg says the confederation has evolved immensely since then, shifting from simply managing competitions to actively trying to help develop football in the region.

— Juliana Kim, NPR, 16 July 2026

Definition of managing

Verb

Lots of acorns one year means lots of mice the next, which gives baby ticks a greater chance of biting a mouse and surviving long enough to bite us.

— Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
After all, bills continue arriving, creditors may start reaching out and, in turn, surviving family members are often left to determine which financial obligations still need attention.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 13 July 2026