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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
• But the return to his alma mater couldn’t stem the tide of his addiction.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Boxes of tissues can’t stem the tide of tears — onscreen or in your living room.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
• But this court should not attempt to stem the tide of technology.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Garza also has tried to stem the tide of employees leaving CPS.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Mar. 2022
• Amazon has sought to stem the tide by limiting self-publishers to three books per day.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• The United States and its allies have not been able to stem the tide of attacks or check the group’s propaganda campaign.
  — Alexandra Stark, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2024
• The bank tried to stem the tide by offering higher rates on certificates of deposit.
  — Gina Heeb, wsj.com, 1 May 2023
• 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
• With that in mind, the researchers say there are steps local government officials can take that could stem the tide of these rising injury rates.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
• The goal, court officials say, is to stem the tide of people who claim financial hardship and beg out of their jury service every day.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2024
• CalRecycle, the state agency in charge, did little to stem the tide, according to critics.
  — Sofia Fernandez, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• There’s little that individual people can do to stem the tide of the climate crisis.
  — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yes, but: Some lawmakers had a far less rosy answer to the question of whether Biden's performance will be enough to stem the tide of statements calling for his withdrawal.
  — Axios, 12 July 2024
• These commonsense measures were designed to stem the tide of gun violence and keep Marylanders safe.
  — William C. Ferguson, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2024
• Lessons from the war on drugs from abroad can make their way to Africa, and when paired with the right training and equipment, local law enforcement officials can stem the tide of drugs coursing through the continent.
  — Tom Woods, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2016
• 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
• 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
• Meanwhile, nearby European countries are struggling to stem the tide of refugees streaming across Libyan borders.
  — Raphael Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2014
• The president has taken executive action to stem the tide.
  — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• But Harris’s history with Silicon Valley could stem the tide.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 22 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024