was combatting
- past progressive of combat.
Example Sentences
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Congress lambasted the FDA for the shortages and started requiring the agency to prove every year how it was combatting the problem.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025
Last week Sears, Roebuck, faced with declining sales, announced a salary freeze for 20,000 of its 330,000 employees; Macy's was combatting speculation that recent losses might undermine its already precarious financial position.
From Time Magazine Archive
How could Reid imagine he was combatting that doctrine when he wrote thus?
From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart
Here it was detained five weeks while its persevering leader was combatting the rogueries of Ali Ben Salim and another Arab, Hadji Palloo, who had undertaken to secure one hundred and forty pagazis.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
His rival was combatting it with undisguised ridicule, accompanied with bursts of laughter.
From In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
