Example Sentences

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Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa said one of her key tasks has been balancing the company’s global growth with sustainability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Freeman missed eight games while Max was in the hospital, and has been balancing his play on the field with his family duties off it in the month since.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

Kim has been balancing providing incentives for people to get vaccinated with reining in an outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant that started in July.

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2021

She has been balancing working from home, teaching and what she calls her everyday "mummy duties".

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2021

Among the challenges, he said, has been balancing the desires of the Vatican and the archdiocese.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2015