How to Use damage control in a Sentence

damage control

noun
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  • After a year of aggressive tightening aimed at taming inflation, this shift signals that the central bank is now in damage control mode.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Since the director shoehorns himself into a cameo at the very end to arbitrarily explain away one potential plot hole and do some damage control, the final result is mediocre at best.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Read more: Wahlberg's gift is the right move, and not just for damage control.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The fire was knocked down at 9:20 a.m., but crews remained at the scene for mop up and damage control.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • That led Gove and her team to spend a lot of time on damage control this summer.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Brown said the law firm wasn’t being brought in for damage control.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Bill’s team asks Hillary, still in the throes of her hatband phase, to come to New Hampshire for damage control.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Just 12 days in to the New Year, the White House is already in serious damage control mode.
    — CBS News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The damage control began not long after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock across the face.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2022
  • So that was just trying to do damage control right away.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Once again, the Giants are left scrambling to do damage control because of the man on the masthead.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Hewitt has done a good job of damage control in last two innings but needs a big hit to get back in this.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 21 May 2022
  • So he’s done a good job of damage control, of managing that.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The action takes place behind the scenes of the Oval Office, where the president’s staff is on damage control.
    — Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • When the story does drop, the Waystar braintrust finds itself in damage control.
    — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And that’s even with Square Enix trying to do review score damage control.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Yet most of the party is either in hiding or in damage control.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The section quickly sank, and only herculean damage control efforts saved the rest of the ship and crew.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2018
  • In season 2, the scientists were in over their heads in damage control mode.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • With the photo splashed across the New York Post, the Hobart campaign spins into damage control.
    — EW.com, 19 June 2020
  • Right now, Petro is in damage control mode trying to isolate the issue around his son.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • Merrill has spent the hours since the op-ed published doing damage control.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
  • The first year after this change focused on damage control.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • For his part, Mr. Cruz used much of his speech to focus on a more pressing matter: damage control.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Some are playing at damage control, trying to train native predators to avoid the taste of toads.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
  • But the response isn’t just about Shein and the ways in which a company shapes a narrative about its brand or does damage control.
    — Alyssa Hardy, refinery29.com, 4 July 2023
  • But Bloom, who is planning to fly here first thing Wednesday morning, still has some damage control to do in the clubhouse.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • With an election looming, Labour has tried to do damage control.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Get some more sleep, then get a good retinol prescription from your doctor to do some damage control.
    — Adam Hurly, GQ, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The Patriots have spent too much time this season in damage control.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019

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