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After receiving top grades in all her subjects she said the school have "combatted it well" as 3D design, photography, art, craft and design were difficult to do from home.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2022

The infamous one-child policy, he said, had been vital: “Or else how could the country have combatted its exploding population growth?”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2019

So far as I am concerned, I have combatted this opinion from the very inauguration of the positive school of criminology, and I combat it today.

From The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 by Ferri, Enrico

Those who have combatted the committee have made a fundamental error.

From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various

I have not at all pledged you to approve of Lord Ashburton's preamble, which, au contraire, I have combatted here, but have said: "I am incapable of judging," &c., &c.

From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of