damage control
Example Sentences
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Is there any damage control that can be done?
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Whittlesey said he suspects that the combination of flood-control requirements and damage control after the pipe failure is likely costing them tens of thousands of acre-feet of snowmelt.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 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
“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
In private Oval Office meetings, Nixon, Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman discussed options for damage control.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
