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

The girl was doing her best to haul in one of the sunken lines, but the hidden force beneath the surface was combatting her strength fiercely.

From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile

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