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battling









ADJECTIVE
warring
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Protester Sekar, 37, told AFP her "heart is shattered" by the plight of compatriots battling months of wildfires and haze while also contending with the effects of a weakening currency and higher prices.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

It isn’t only passenger jets that are battling to find safe routings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Indonesian schoolchildren prayed for rain on Thursday as another firefighter lost his life battling drought-fuelled blazes consuming forests and peatlands and blanketing parts of Southeast Asia in a sickening haze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

But Macdonald also spent the last nine years of his life battling leukemia while keeping it secret not just from his audience but his friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“With not one but two firsthand accounts of battling it!”

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack


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