Example Sentences

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Ivanka Trump joined Pompeo in handing out awards to 10 men and women who have combated human trafficking in their home countries.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2018

“Scientific advances have combated stigma around a wide variety of brain diseases, but not addiction.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2016

Police have combated that violence with the use of "gang audits" — the sharing of gang intelligence between specialized citywide units and district personnel — and the daily influx of overtime officers.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 31, 2014

The English philosophers, Bain and Mill, have combated this proposition with extraordinary ardour, like believers combating a heresy.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

I do not pretend entirely to have surmounted these sentiments, although I have combated them, as being unworthy of me, and ungrateful to you.

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir