How to Use stem the tide in a Sentence
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And a boost of around $2 an hour on average in a little over a year hasn’t been enough to stem the tide.
—Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
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But the return to his alma mater couldn’t stem the tide of his addiction.
—Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
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What’s unclear is if this will stem the tide of the players who are expected to jump to LIV at the end of the Tour season.
—Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
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But this court should not attempt to stem the tide of technology.
—Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
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Garza also has tried to stem the tide of employees leaving CPS.
—Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
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Amazon has sought to stem the tide by limiting self-publishers to three books per day.
—Will Oremus, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
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The bank tried to stem the tide by offering higher rates on certificates of deposit.
—Gina Heeb, wsj.com, 1 May 2023
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There are no gun stores in Baltimore, and while police seize thousands of guns a year, little seems to stem the tide of guns flowing onto the streets.
—Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
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CalRecycle, the state agency in charge, did little to stem the tide, according to critics.
—Sofia Fernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
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There’s little that individual people can do to stem the tide of the climate crisis.
—Molly Taft, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
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Customers who purchase a 15-pack of Budweiser beer this Memorial Day weekend can get it for just about free, the latest move to stem the tide of plunging sales.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
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Voters were about evenly split on whether passing more restrictive asylum laws would stem the tide of asylum seekers coming to the U.S.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
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As Palestinians fled to neighboring lands, the armies of five Arab countries – which also wished to prevent a Jewish state from forming – were deployed to try to stem the tide of refugees.
—Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 11 May 2023
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No amount of reasoning or reminders that Arab invasions had not yet happened in Cleopatra’s age seemed to stem the tide of ridiculous comments.
—Tina Gharavi, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
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No amount of reasoning or reminders that Arab invasions had not yet happened in Cleopatra’s age seemed to stem the tide of ridiculous comments.
—Tina Gharavi, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
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Over the past decade, the sector has taken off in trying to provide cleanup solutions while doing little to actually stem the tide of garbage.
—Matthew King, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
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The regime tried and failed to stem the tide of liberalization: in 1987, South Korea made a successful transition to democracy.
—Hahm Chaibong, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
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The president has taken executive action to stem the tide.
—Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
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Charlene Bowie, 66, a Brooklyn resident who rendered emergency aid to a girl on her lawn who had been shot, said an arrest wouldn’t do much to stem the tide of gun violence.
—Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2023
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Because while some may be able to stem the tide of a production shutdown in the short term, the financial danger increases as the strike goes on further into the fall and the release schedule suffers.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
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While TikTok has struggled to stem the tide of misleading information on its platform, losing the app would force young Americans to turn to other sources.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
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In the months since, the question of how to stem the tide of domestic extremism has been met with appropriate seriousness from most corners, save certain factions on the right.
—Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
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The fall of the capitals of Badakhshan and Baghlan provinces to the northeast and Farah province to the west put increasing pressure on the country's central government to stem the tide of the advance, even as its lost a major base in Kunduz.
—Tameem Akhgar and Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
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The fall of the capitals of Badakhshan and Baghlan provinces to the northeast and Farah province to the west put increasing pressure on the country’s central government to stem the tide of the advance, even as its lost a major base in Kunduz.
—Fox News, 11 Aug. 2021
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With governments around the world dealing with a flood of foreign buyers piling into their local real-estate markets, many are looking to stem the tide.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2023
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But after war breaks out, panic and civil unrest run rampant, with the local authorities unable to stem the tide of mass hysteria.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
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Proactive burning of forests and grasslands is increasingly recognized as one of the most effective ways to stem the tide of catastrophic fire.
—Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Aug. 2021
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In their holistic approach, TRCs illustrate the immense care and cooperation needed to stem the tide of violence.
—Allen Arthur, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
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Those who remain on Saint Helena hope to stem the tide of generational changes elsewhere in the Gullah community by refusing to give up titles on their lands.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
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Observing a surge in Asian hate crimes and misunderstandings, Diana Weiping Ding took action to bring communities together to stem the tide.
—Mylene Stolpe, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
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