Cope
Cope verb - To meet one's day-to-day needs.
Live
Live verb - To have a home.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Determinator: Most people when their wife is taken away from them by a charismatic drug dealer would either let the police deal with it, or failing that, try to cope and live their lives.
Source: Film / Super - The live-action Japanese film Nobody Knows is a heart-breakingly realistic treatment of this trope: 4 children are abandoned by their feckless mother and do their best to cope in her absence.
Source: Parental Abandonment / Film -
She originally tries to kill herself in the bath, unable to cope with the fact that she'll live and Shizuku will die, but is stopped in time by Shizuku.
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Live and Cope. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cope/live
Cope & Live. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cope/live>.
Live or Cope. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cope/live.
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