damage control

Example Sentences

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The fire prompted a major damage control response, with sailors working for hours to contain the blaze and ensure it had not spread to other parts of the ship, officials said.

From BBC

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

In the days after OpenAI signed its contract with the Pentagon, the company went into damage control mode.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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