combat
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Last week, the administration launched a separate program that is meant to pay people for providing information to the administration to combat fraud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Silver helps combat bacteria associated with tooth decay, while fluoride helps strengthen the mineral structure of teeth and resist further damage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
While he never served in combat, Eisenhower rose in the ranks because of his exceptional talent for strategy, logistics and diplomacy, skills which used to be held in high regard in the military.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
The firm is already involved in the UK's Boxer combat vehicle programme and is upgrading the country's Challenger tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Those flowers on the wings of an aircraft at rest boasted: I am a woman and I am a combat pilot.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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The policy, which comes into effect in September, "combats rampant visa abuse, and strengthens national security through regular vetting", the Department of Homeland Security said.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The Man of Steel combats gigantic robots programmed to abscond with jewels and other valuables and then take to the air to return to their mad-genius minder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms said Tuesday that it’s ending a third-party fact-checking program in the United States, a controversial move that will change how the social media giant combats misinformation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
Now a research team from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, has created a unique system that combats the dilemma, thus paving the way for longer computation time and more robust quantum computers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2024
The final stage of breaking to the cricket standard was by mock combats.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Experts say the refurbished phone was likely loaded with spyware, and that she could have combated this by restoring factory settings before setting it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Tom Dreesen, the veteran stand-up comedian who toured with Frank Sinatra, combated civil rights-era racial tension with comedy, and championed pay for fellow Comedy Store acts, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Google has also combated the idea that AI will kill its Search business by developing AI Overviews and AI Search.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
"The US government is showing the way forward; something that is long overdue in Germany. All forms of extremism must be combated, and all terrorist organisations must be fought and banned."
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
I combated him with health class facts and my father’s numbers.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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The freight company has combatted a weak shipping economy by controlling costs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
O’Malley combatted this firsthand while trying to turn things around for Social Security.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
Experts also blame the worsening fire situation on a 2007 decision to disband a federal aviation network that spotted and combatted wildfires.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021
The propagation of conspiracy theories can partially be combatted by strong messaging from trusted sources.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2020
Intimately associated with him in his work, she combatted for the triumph of his ideas and sought to make converts to them.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
“Netanyahu’s response reflects a theme he has been campaigning on, namely combating Palestinian terror,” said Michael Koplow, policy director of the Israel Policy Forum, a U.S. think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
In an apparent response, Rospotrebnadzor on Tuesday announced that Russia was prepared to assist the United States in combating its own outbreaks of infectious diseases.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
And the committee recommended that the BBC is given new public purposes relating to innovation and technology and combating misinformation and disinformation.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s also worth asking one other question of someone like Greenblatt, who has made combating antisemitism his life’s work.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
I put in long hours at Sidley & Austin, often eating both lunch and dinner at my desk while combating a continuous flow of documents, all of them written in precise and decorous lawyer-language.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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But if America wants secure aluminum supply chains, combatting unfair trade is necessary but not sufficient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Automatic license plate readers like Flock cameras were by far the top choice for combatting catalytic converter theft, beating out overtime for investigators and additional training.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
At the same time as he is strengthening Flock's safeguards, he is pitching his company's products as crucial to combatting crime and improving policing in the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
An Israeli military official admitted that the primary bottleneck in combatting the threat came from "gaps in weapons development".
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
She claimed to be an expert in combatting cold weather and in avoiding head colds.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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