learn to live with something

idiom

: to accept and deal with something
It's a bad situation, but we'll just have to learn to live with it.

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“Learn to live with something.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/learn%20to%20live%20with%20something. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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