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learn to live with
Idioms and Phrases
Get used to or accustom oneself to something that is painful, annoying, or unpleasant. For example, The doctor said nothing more could be done about improving her sight; she'd just have to learn to live with it , or Pat decided she didn't like the new sofa but would have to learn to live with it .Example Sentences
But the frequency of attacks has forced residents to learn to live with the war and maintain as normal a life as possible.
You just have to learn to live with it but you will never have a normal life like you did before.
“As you grow older, you kind of learn to live with the joys and pain of life, y’all .… Can I get a witness to that?”
For better or worse, we need to learn to live with — and, perhaps, embrace — the uncertainties in our lives.
Others feel banning social media isn’t the answer, and that kids need to learn to live with the technology because it’s not going anywhere.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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