damage control
Example Sentences
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A day after federal prosecutors announced that the catastrophic Palisades fire was caused by the rekindling of a smaller arson fire days earlier, Los Angeles city officials were in damage control mode.
From Los Angeles Times
I do damage control on my cookies and cream, licking around the circumference of the cone to avoid getting sticky, but it’s no use.
From Literature
“Regret without accountability is just damage control – an attempt to move on while the rest of us are expected to sit with the discomfort of our careers being publicly tied to him,” she wrote.
Meanwhile, Cosentino, a Wasserman client since 2021, wrote in a letter posted to social media that her agency head’s response to the backlash was “not enough... Regret without accountability is just damage control.”
From Los Angeles Times
Inside Vanity Fair, a new editor in chief is doing damage control for the attention now fixed on one of his most high-profile hires.
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