combat
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He pushed to get into a combat unit and made aliyah this time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
From spoofing hypersonic missiles to jamming drone signals, combat zones are in the grip of an electronic arms race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
That has rattled bond investors at a time when interest rates -- and hence borrowing costs -- are rising in developed economies worldwide to combat inflation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Research into breast cancer or DNA sequencing that helped combat coronavirus could also be honoured.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Like the night bombers, the pilots of the 586th Regiment in their dangerous solo Yak fighters were growing hardened in combat too.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
The Man of Steel combats gigantic robots programmed to abscond with jewels and other valuables and then take to the air to return to their mad-genius minder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Even as her unsinkable, emotionally complicated boss combats Ava’s efforts to elevate the show at every turn, Ava’s maturation stands out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
The IDF did not respond to BBC requests for comment on how it combats organised looting and smuggling.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
Nrf2 combats this toxic stress in brain cells, helping to stave off disease.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
She combats this by trying her hardest never to get her hopes up, and urging everyone else to do the same.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
Experts say the refurbished phone was likely loaded with spyware, and that she could have combated this by restoring factory settings before setting it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Google has also combated the idea that AI will kill its Search business by developing AI Overviews and AI Search.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
"We've always combated those views, and we've always worked with young people - and that's the same for racist views and homophobic views," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025
The Times reported that numerous fire hydrants in higher-elevation streets of the Palisades went dry, leaving crews struggling with low water pressure as they combated the flames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
In fact, the cyclotron had been working perfectly well with beams far more defocused by imperfections in the magnetic field—those bothersome irregularities combated by shimming—than they would be by the relativistic effects that Bethe posited.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The freight company has combatted a weak shipping economy by controlling costs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
They pose a threat that must be taken very seriously and actively combatted.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2021
Experts also blame the worsening fire situation on a 2007 decision to disband a federal aviation network that spotted and combatted wildfires.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021
It combatted states’ efforts to treat immigrants like human beings.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2020
This Count Saxe combatted, saying it seemed to him most unlikely that an officer of rank in the East India Company’s army should die without his family or friends receiving any notification.
From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell
In an apparent response, Rospotrebnadzor on Tuesday announced that Russia was prepared to assist the United States in combating its own outbreaks of infectious diseases.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
And the committee recommended that the BBC is given new public purposes relating to innovation and technology and combating misinformation and disinformation.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s also worth asking one other question of someone like Greenblatt, who has made combating antisemitism his life’s work.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
But he left an indelible mark on the environment, authoring legislation offering incentives to recycle, limiting advertisers’ inflated claims about products’ environmental benefits and combating water and air pollution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Marigolds are now used in many places for combating nematodes.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
He said he would encourage the US to help South Africa with resources on combatting crime, including by providing equipment to speed up reaction times.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
A documentary offers a history of cystic fibrosis and the medical advancements in combatting it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Automatic license plate readers like Flock cameras were by far the top choice for combatting catalytic converter theft, beating out overtime for investigators and additional training.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Colombia's president-elect, de la Espriella, will take office a few days later, having won a similarly razor-thin election on the promise of combatting organised crime.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
She claimed to be an expert in combatting cold weather and in avoiding head colds.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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