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How to use the word grapple in a Sentence?

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We grieve with Tyre Nichols ’ loved ones and offer them our deepest sympathies as they grapple with the pain of Tyre Nichols heinous and brutal murder, our hearts also go out to the city of Memphis. As they continue their investigations into the events that led to Tyre’s tragic and untimely death, we’re encouraged by the swift response by Police Chief Cerelyn Davis. We join their city officials and Tyre’s family in calling for peace and offer them our support on their road to healing.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just because I was abused doesn't mean I don't love her, that has been so difficult to grapple with.

Jennette McCurdy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's 12 ideas out there, I haven't gone deep on any one of them, but I do think it's important that this country grapple with the fact that a freedom that two generations of Americans… took for granted… [has] been taken away.

Jim Himes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are very lucky in Canada to have a world of beautiful natural spaces at our doorstep to enjoy healthy outdoor activities, this exciting collaboration with PaRx is a breakthrough for how we treat mental and physical health challenges, and couldn't come at a better time as we continue to grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our daily lives.

Steven Guilbeault

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We should be talking about being more inclusive and not disenfranchising states, especially those with a diverse population. And that is something we have to grapple with.

Lee Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There seems to be not much representation in the court of those African American voices. We really grapple with it. We are concerned about them not having a voice.

Ben Crump

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It has taken me these past eight days to comprehend how this could have happened, i will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail. I will also grapple with the fact that my rapist will, in all likelihood, never be known, may have gone on to rape other women, and certainly will never serve the time in prison that Mr. Broadwater did.

Alice Sebold

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I will forever grapple with his death and there are many times still when I catch myself not believing he was killed, there is a shadow with me always - and it is Mike.

Dave Tyson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A project that is seeking, journalistically, to force us to grapple with our history can not be responsible for bad faith actors deciding they are going to whip up white resentment.

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At that point I realized Encode Justice is addressing a challenge that isn't limited to one single ballot measure, it's a twenty-first-century civil rights challenge we're going to have to grapple with.

Sneha Revanur

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are( a) team of Dalit women and not all of us are equipped with digital means of communication. This whole webinar sh * t and online meetings were an added burden, however( the) only good that we see in this phase is that our women learnt to use technology and attempted to grapple with new normal.

Vikram Singh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The message that they're trying to send to the second graders is exactly the mixed messages that adults are having to deal with, which is we feel unsafe out in the streets now because of the entire ‘defund the police’ movement that has led to less police presence, but now the police are being blamed for it. So it's this contradiction that is basically very manipulative -- and it's so inappropriate for second graders to have to grapple with this.

Elizabeth Shultz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

( Removing the statues) is one small step closer to the goal of helping Charlottesville, Virginia, and America grapple with its sin of being willing to destroy Black people for economic gains.

Nikuyah Walker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Congress's attention to the question may soon eliminate any need for Supreme Court to grapple with that constitutional question.

Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Congress's attention to the question may soon eliminate any need for The Supreme Court to grapple with that constitutional question.

Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller, she was a magician with language, who understood the Power of words. She used them to roil us, to wake us, to educate us and help us grapple with our deepest wounds and try to comprehend them.

Oprah Winfrey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The question that I think we have to grapple with is that breaking up these companies wouldn't make any of those problems better, the amount that we're investing in safety and security is greater than the whole revenue of our company was earlier this decade when we went public, so it just would not have been possible to do the things we're doing at a smaller scale.

Mark Zuckerberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think that the huge media splash of the lawsuit is behind us and were obviously focused on the World Cup, but also its like this is our life, and there are a lot of things that we have to grapple and deal with: Family, friends, partners, media, pressures, games, World Cup, travel. So its just kind of just one more thing. This team always has a lot of media attention, and weve always had a lot of things on our plate so its not like its anything new, or all of a sudden were getting all the more attention. Its sort of the same for us.

Megan Rapinoe

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Seems you'd remember something like that and be able to tell William Barr, yeah, but I'm trying to grapple with the word' suggest,'.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The rapid and wide-scale dissemination of this hateful content — live-streamed on Facebook, uploaded on YouTube and amplified on Reddit — shows how easily the largest platforms can still be misused. It is ever clearer that YouTube, in particular, has yet to grapple with the role it has played in facilitating radicalization and recruitment.

Mark Warner

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Why is it that a white, male Republican can largely get away with the same thing and this massive outcry happened over a Muslim, progressive woman of color? That's something we have to grapple with.

Peter Daou

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Were just starting to grapple with it in a serious way.

Gary Ruskin

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There is still some work to be done as we grapple with the immigration issues.

Mark Meadows

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

He has suggested that we invite Iranian troops into Syria, that is like asking the arsonist to be the firefighter. ...The challenges a President has to grapple with are beyond complicated but at home and abroad. That is why is it is the hardest job.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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