verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grappling iron
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
issue
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Some films show their makers grappling with contemporary issues , without always the level of visual inventiveness applied elsewhere.
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He accepts that aid agencies are grappling with highly complex issues .
problem
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The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but still the cars choke the cobbled streets.
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Right now Waid is grappling with the problem of space in his compositions.
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At worst, they merely signal a reluctance or inability to grapple with those problems .
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Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.
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Secondly, the profession needs to grapple with the problem of substandard training in research.
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One corner of the Instrumentation and Control Board activities was concerned for weeks or months with grappling with the problem .
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Then, with the body subdued, one might at last grapple with the real problems .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it also stirred feelings of guilt and pity within me which I am still grappling to explain to myself.
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Finally the book also exposes you to the experience of change through a number of stories of people grappling with behavior-driven challenges.
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Memory and imagination were grappling at each other's throats, and these people would lose if he lay here much longer.
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Their history, their grappling with the meaning of freedom, was here and now.
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This 1995 work is his first to grapple with the social changes of the new political reality.
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Together, they grapple with concerns that confront us all as citizens.
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We grapple on the wet ground - both of us with a hand on his gun.