damage control

Example Sentences

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The Navy acknowledged there had been some issues, citing the vessel's leadership as saying "clog incidents are addressed promptly by trained damage control and engineering personnel, with minimal downtime".

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Amodei apologized for the comment and said Anthropic would go to court to fight the supply-chain risk designation, but he will likely have to do more damage control to co-exist with the administration moving forward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

But by the time he got there, his monologue had been transformed from a pure celebration of his overnight success into an exercise in damage control.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Such damage control could revive their stocks after this year’s brutal selloff, driven by fears that AI would render software and services providers irrelevant.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Visiting him again was a risk, but I needed to do some damage control.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos