damage control

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The Navy acknowledged the reports of toilet problems in a statement last month, but cited ship leadership as saying that "clog incidents are addressed promptly by trained damage control and engineering personnel, with minimal downtime."

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

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 • Feb. 13, 2026

“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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

President Bola Tinubu has even stepped in to try and resolve the tensions, setting up a high-level committee to do some damage control.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Going into damage control, CBS announced its regret that a few listeners who had heard only parts of the program “mistook fantasy for fact.”

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow