combat

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Email records show Flock’s courtship of the bureau dates at least to spring 2024, when the company agreed to donate two of its plate readers to help combat copper thefts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Talbot said from the federal to the local level, everyone in the ranching community has been talking about the arrival of screwworm and how to combat it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Residents of Utah and Maryland can now use it to combat skyrocketing utility bills, and seven more states—Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Virginia—have recently passed laws to make it possible, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

In a later post on X, Newsom's office reposted an explainer to combat misinformation, adding: "And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too."

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

She kept it in her plane—she’d take it out and knit until she was given a combat assignment and then she’d tuck it behind her parachute.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein