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to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently
a medical ethicist who grapples with extremely difficult questions all the time
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Schermer discussed his work as founder and CEO of Project Healthy Minds, a non-profit that addresses the barriers to finding mental health care and offers tools to make accessing services easier.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025 -
The achievement addresses a long-standing challenge in creating the practical components needed to build and scale quantum communication systems.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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But Edward, with the help of their family’s fixer, Sean Rafferty (James Norton), manages to successfully navigate these bumps on the road to expansion.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Supergiant’s first-ever sequel is a celebration of its predecessor, a cornucopia of additions, evolutions, and maximalist fan service that still manages to tell its own worthy story — and plenty of it.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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For those interested in Kansas restaurants, the state’s Department of Agriculture handles inspections.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
23 Sep. 2025
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ChatBlu has secured 500,000 dollars in pre-seed funding to launch an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent that handles inventory across multiple storefronts.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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The algorithm manipulates users, but primarily with the goal of keeping them on the platform and seeing more advertisements.—
David Karpf,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
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The patch was created by combining nanophotonics technology, which manipulates light at the nanometer scale (one-hundred-thousandth the thickness of a human hair) to read molecular properties, with microfluidics technology, which precisely controls sweat in channels thinner than a hair.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Penda Health, a network of medical clinics in Kenya, treats an enormous range of patients, from newborns sickened by malaria to construction workers who have fallen off buildings.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The kids get an assist from Sally Hardesty herself (Olwen Fouéré), whom the film treats with such flippant disregard that the matter should be tried in court.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Sep. 2025
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The in-depth report this week takes a deeper look into how Charlie Kirk’s faith fueled a movement.—
Amy DeLaura,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Sep. 2025
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Homemade caramel sauce is the finishing touch that takes this apple coffee cake from good to great.—
Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025
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Jonas negotiates the coffee and doughnut freebie in a fun video posted on Instagram and TikTok.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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Faulí now runs a team of eleven architects, and also negotiates the politics of a project that has numerous stakeholders.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Grapples (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapples%20%28with%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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