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Example sentences for: grappled

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The issue arose (again) when I grappled with the purpose of this book.
Retail buyers of old grappled with this problem as they do today.
On May 24 alone, counterterrorism officials grappled with reports alleging plots in Yemen and Italy, as well as a report about a cell in Canada that an anonymous caller had claimed might be planning an attack against the United States.
West has really grappled with the great plays and found in the lack of a central consciousness (the protagonists are not mouthpieces for the playwright) and refusal to demonize even the most destructive-seeming characters a hallmark of Christian forgiveness.
McPherson grappled with the complexities and contradictions that plague us as black and white Americans in a way that no other writer I know of has done.