come to terms

Verb

Meaning

come to terms (third-person singular simple present comes to terms, present participle coming to terms, simple past came to terms, past participle come to terms)

(idiomatic, of two or more parties, often with a prepositional phrase) To reach an agreement or settle a dispute.
We hope someday she and her mother will come to terms on the matter.

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Much of what we see in the universe," said Hugo, "starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it. Clifford D. Simak

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. Wole Soyinka

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe. Kevin J. Anderson

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. Franz Kafka

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. Franz Kafka

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it. Joe Strummer

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