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cope with meaning and examples

2025-09-12

Meaning

  • Cope with means to deal successfully with something difficult, challenging, or unpleasant.
  • It emphasizes managing a situation, not necessarily solving it completely.

Grammar and Usage

  • Part of speech: Phrasal verb (intransitive, used with “with”).

  • Structure: cope with + noun/pronoun

    • Example: "She copes with stress very well."

  • Used in both formal and informal contexts.

Common Phrases

  • cope with stress
  • cope with pressure
  • cope with difficulties
  • cope with loss
  • cope with change

Collocations

  • verbs + cope with: learn to cope with, try to cope with, manage to cope with
  • nouns + cope with: ability to cope with, difficulty in coping with
  • adverbs + cope with: successfully cope with, barely cope with, effectively cope with

Examples

  1. He found it hard to cope with the loss of his job.
  2. Students must learn to cope with exam pressure.
  3. She can’t cope with all these responsibilities alone.
  4. The team had to cope with several setbacks during the project.
  5. How do you cope with disappointment?
  6. Parents often struggle to cope with children’s tantrums.
  7. He barely managed to cope with the situation.
  8. I don’t know if I can cope with this heat.
  • deal with
  • manage
  • handle
  • get through
  • endure

Antonym

  • give up
  • succumb to
  • break down