damage control
Example Sentences
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The next week, Gates’s nuclear power company TerraPower was engaging in its own form of reputational damage control.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Is there any damage control that can be done?
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Such damage control could revive their stocks after this year’s brutal selloff, driven by fears that AI would render software and services providers irrelevant.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
A day after federal prosecutors announced that the catastrophic Palisades fire was caused by the rekindling of a smaller arson fire days earlier, Los Angeles city officials were in damage control mode.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
“It’s the damage control part I gotta figure out.”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
