come/get to grips with something

grip | American Dictionary

grip
verb[ I/T ]
us/ɡrɪp/present participle-pp-
to hold something tightly, or stick to something:
[ T ]The baby gripped my finger.
[ I ]Worn tires don’t grip very well on wet roads.
If an emotion grips you, you feel it strongly:
[ T ]Brady was gripped by fear.
grip
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/ɡrɪp/
a way of holding something, or a tight hold:
She has a strong/firm/weak grip.
He lost his grip on Nancy’s arm.
fig. They were in the grip of a tropical storm (= suffering its effects).

Examples of grip

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Appearing to promise both amazing new control over nature and terrifying dehumanization, cloning has gripped the popular imagination.
I was gripped by the problem of development.
Coming to grips with lexical richness in spontaneous speech data.
4), fails to come to grips with the problem of recognizing psychological process (perception) in any record of collective activity, archaeological or ethnographic.
When dispensing the adhesive, the distance between the needle tips and the solar cells gripped by the suction cups must be adjustable.
With his hand gripping his cloth-patch in his pocket, he plunged through the hedge and into the estate grounds.
In the programmed mode, the subject's forearm on the weaker side is comfortably strapped to a trough, with the hand gripping a vertical handle.
We experience buildings from detail to concept (a hand grips a door handle and a space unfolds), yet we design them from concept to detail.
The imaginative application of the narrative mode leads instead to good stories, gripping drama, believable (though not necessarily 'true') historical accounts.
A striking feature of the modern debate is the failure of all concerned to come to grips with the trade itself.
Our claim is that a false expectation, going by the name of the 'quest for certainty', has gripped those conducting research synthesis.
What had happened, and what was the way forward to come to grips with this elusive rate constant?
Now he appears alone, coming to grips, probably in an obbligato recitative, with his internal struggle.
The intention, declared on the first page, is to come to grips with the relations between built environments and development.
The major disadvantage of clamping methods is that they require access to more than one surface of the workpiece for gripping to occur.
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Collocations withgrip

grip

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better grip
In order to gain a bettergrip on this, we need to investigate closer what autonomy and consciousness may mean.
firm grip
Note that all the joint velocities of the robots are connected to the same u because of firmgrip.
grip aperture
With binocular vision grip aperture matched block-size and was not affected by its distance for both the patients and the control subjects.
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