damage control
Example Sentences
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Brad Cooper, took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to do damage control.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
As word of the attacks spread, Jordan’s government, normally reticent about foreign military deployments in the country, embarked on damage control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The next week, Gates’s nuclear power company TerraPower was engaging in its own form of reputational damage control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Is there any damage control that can be done?
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
Going into damage control, CBS announced its regret that a few listeners who had heard only parts of the program “mistook fantasy for fact.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
