as in to contend (with)
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Here are simple ways to combat the fear in the meantime.Essence, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
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His resume includes work for the International Justice Mission, a nonprofit that aims to combat human trafficking.Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The waxing crescent Moon in your sign squares off against Saturn and Neptune, opposes Jupiter, and passes through conjunction with Venus.Jennifer Culp, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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Midway through the campaign, he’s kept opposing quarterbacks under a 72.1 passer rating in all but three games, tallying 28 tackles, one interception, and four passes defensed while allowing just one touchdown in coverage.Jesse Reed, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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California’s choice to resist potential policies that are threatening to its citizens is very necessary.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Space travel is an itch that the United States, under any president, seems unable to resist scratching.Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Santa Clara County Fire Department has more than three times the space to fight fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains with last week’s opening of the Redwood Fire Station.Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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It was named after longtime California legislator Vincent Thomas, who had fought to build it for decades.Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Beginner stretches include standing awareness, head hang, and supine spinal twist.Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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Surveillance footage released by police shows the suspect standing inside the dumpster, then smoke coming out of the dumpster before it’s engulfed in flames.Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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For all the encouraging signs from the global year of elections, the most important question—whether American democracy can withstand four years of attempts to subvert it—remains contested.Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Paired with a strong aluminum or steel pole structure, the heavy canvas fabric creates a resilient structure that can withstand weather in a way that the flexible poles and thin fabrics of backpacking tents could never achieve.Wes Siler, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
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Cayden Addison, a seven-year-old Black boy battling a rare form Philadelphia chromosome acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), has had two donors back out on him.Pia Velasco, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
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On June 12, 2018, coalition forces battling ISIS found and destroyed three hundred thousand captagon pills belonging to the Islamist group.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Square (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/square%20%28off%29. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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