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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

Numerous fire hydrants in higher-elevation streets of the Palisades went dry, leaving firefighters struggling with low water pressure as they combated the flames.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

Meanwhile, piggery managers combated mosquitoes by mowing grass, applying insecticides, removing standing water, and repairing window screens in offices and lunch rooms.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 21, 2023

In June, Keough combated that by filing a 73-page petition "in support of her bid for the appointment to head what the family has dubbed the Promenade Trust," which ultimately came out in her favor.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2023

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