Definition of "cope with" []

• To come to terms with; to overcome any difficulties presented by. (verb)

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• "Making effective policy to cope with this interconnected world requires integrating its varied dimensionsdefense and diplomacy, finance and trade, the environment and homeland security, science and social policyinto a coherent whole."
• "Trelease attributes the widespread fears about the influence of comics when he was a child to parents and other well-meaning adults trying to cope with the significant social and cultural changes that took place after World War II."
• "AS THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY got under way late that summer in 1980, Americans for a second year in a row were trying to cope with the ruthless effects of double-digit inflation, which was eating away at their savings, their paychecks, and their way of life like a horde of locusts."