How to Use contend with in a Sentence

contend with

phrasal verb
Definition of contend withnext
  • Nintendo has been contending with fading demand for its flagship Switch console, which is now more than seven years old.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The design issues aren’t just limited to soccer, as women’s basketball has contended with the same problem for decades.
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, enterprises must contend with ever-changing compliance mandates and governance, which are just as strict on cloud environments as their on-premises counterparts.
    — Jody Brazil, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • These were just some of the questions CEOs had to contend with.
    — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Time to go on the hunt, even with an IPO-sized elephant in the room to contend with.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And the town must contend with the empty husk of a hospital.
    — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
  • The Earth has never had to contend with a sky quite so full of machines.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
  • That’s a lot to contend with for the Panthers, the league’s only winless team.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Even Rhaenyra, who is the Queen, has to contend with her male council talking over and around her.
    — Olivia-Anne Cleary, TIME, 29 July 2024
  • For every moment of joy, there’s a whole lot of anger and disgust to contend with!
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 18 Mar. 2024
  • What lessons were learned by folks who didn’t have to contend with downpours during the Wave’s season-and-a-third on the site?
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • But a head injury wasn’t the only thing the six-time Grammy winner had to contend with.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Both missions had to contend with the same merciless icescapes.
    — Sean Kingsley, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And those aren’t the only X factors scientists have to contend with.
    — WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • The Biden campaign has been contending with a number of damning polls since the debate.
    — Ivana Saric, Axios, 17 July 2024
  • Places that didn’t get as much rain still had to contend with the extra water moving downstream.
    — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
  • Places that didn't get as much rain still had to contend with the extra water moving downstream.
    — Margery A. Beck, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • But even then, Israel will have to contend with the challenge of who will establish law and order in Gaza.
    — Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
  • But any life on the Jovian moon would need to contend with some extreme conditions.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There was also the Teen Dance Ordinance to contend with, a curfew law used by the city to shut down all-ages parties and hip-hop events.
    — Gary Campbell, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The film has been lauded as a masterpiece but is not for kids and contending with an R rating.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Great literature, like lifting, makes a claim on one’s life that one has to contend with.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Defining value is the topic of the day as the Gemini sun contends with Saturn.
    — USA TODAY, 28 May 2023
  • Those with phones waved around their flashlights to alert anyone to their location, but the tiny cluster of white lights could not contend with the fury of the wildfire.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Then there are election jitters and changes to commissions to contend with.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
  • How does the divide affect life in Libya? Libyans have been forced to contend with the challenges of life in a country governed as two failing states.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Some users on Meta’s platforms contend with attacks like this one every day.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Tehran has also had to contend with Israeli forces, which have attacked Iranian ships in the Red Sea.
    — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
  • There is, for all intents and purposes, already one state across the land between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea—a fact that the world must contend with.
    — Marwan Muasher, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
  • There’s also streaming to contend with and being able to watch, like, five-second TikToks on your phone.
    — Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 29 Feb. 2024

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