battle

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Yonatan Albalak, her son, posted on Facebook April 2 that his mother had been “gathered into infinity after a short and hard battle with the cursed disease” of cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Meanwhile, Jack Plumb, 38, also from Suffolk, said the group and the yoga has helped battle his loneliness.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The judge’s order slims down the scope of the celebrities’ legal battle in a saga of public mudslinging that has gripped Hollywood since the hit film’s release almost two years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In the time since the movie premiered last year, Peet saw both her parents go through hospice care before dying and had her own battle with breast cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Wireless telegraphy, as radio was then called, required equipment that was too heavy and cumbersome to be carried into battle.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman