damage control
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Is there any damage control that can be done?
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Whittlesey said he suspects that the combination of flood-control requirements and damage control after the pipe failure is likely costing them tens of thousands of acre-feet of snowmelt.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 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
Inside Vanity Fair, a new editor in chief is doing damage control for the attention now fixed on one of his most high-profile hires.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Going into damage control, CBS announced its regret that a few listeners who had heard only parts of the program “mistook fantasy for fact.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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