was combating
- past progressive of combat.
Example Sentences
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The second priority outlined by Mr Blinken was combating the Covid-19 pandemic.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2021
NATO’s job was combating terrorism, he said, and governments and aid agencies made their own choices about nation-building.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Pandemic-related lockdowns in the same period last year meant the company was combating highly differing base effects across its various businesses, CEO Boris Dobrodeev and board chairman Dmitry Grishin said in a joint comment.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2021
Instead of getting ready for the Sun Devils, Inouye-Perez was on a conference call detailing how the team was combating an unprecedented circumstance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2020
She was combating, single-handed, the most enormous military power that the world has ever known.
From Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate by Clay, Henry
