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are combatting
noun
A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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One senses that besides death, these books are combatting another formidable antagonist: the 21st century.
They are combatting, every day, the various messages that ISIL is putting out.
More than 1,000 firefighters, including from the National Forest Service, the national guard and volunteers from as far away as Missouri, are combatting the flames.
The RAF is also flying planeloads of ammunition, rifles and machine guns from former Soviet bloc countries in eastern Europe into Irbil in order to strengthen the fighting power of the Iraqi Kurdish security forces who are combatting the jihadis.
On Friday, when the White House announced that it was authorizing the deployment of "fewer than fifty" U.S. special-forces soldiers to assist Kurdish fighters and Syrian rebels who are combatting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, it was at pains to stress that the move does not represent a big shift in strategy.
Cost and infrastructure may inhibit EVs' immediate success, but some carmakers are combatting these challenges.
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The traditional medical community shouldn't be combatting this change.
Another benefit is "combatting the stigma associated with job seekers".
We're combatting that by using doorpickets at our events.
"Drugs should not be combatted with drugs," the text stated.
They're combat boots, scrunched, with an old feel.
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