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tack

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Recent Examples of tack
Noun
The first piece is 11 sheets of paper tacked to the far wall. Bryan West, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Trump does have one means at his disposal for tacking back to diplomacy without fully reversing his position. Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Verb
Classic ranch-faring activities include a barn equipped with four horse stalls, a tack room, feed storage, and a wash stall. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 June 2025 But the move can also be seen as yet another tack away from internationalism, and an indication of ultimately self-defeating contempt for international norms and institutions. Time, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for tack
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tack
Noun
  • His approach to the book project was to marry the factual fidelity required of an official battalion history with a novelistic evocation of life on the front.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • There are many different types of crabgrass (Digitaria spp), but getting rid of them requires the same approach, says Waltz.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
Verb
  • McDavid zigzagged by Barkov, sent Ekblad into a stumbling flop then slipped a pass by Anton Lundell to Draisaitl in the low right circle.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
  • At 1,800 feet above sea level, and looking beyond the maze of trails zigzagging through the park, the 360-degree CinemaScope views of the city are stunning — well worth the effort of the sweaty climb.
    David Allan, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Given that the government generally does not do great things with its money, tying its spending priorities to debt service is probably a positive.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
  • Joining him was David Lipsky, who made a clutch eagle on the par-5 17th to tie Grillo and Campbell at 18-under, but a costly bogey on 18 kept him out of the playoff.
    Savannah Leigh Richardson, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Their current 53-38 record is in the bank, however, and most projection methods give them an 80%+ chance to make the postseason.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Nissans aren't exclusively susceptible to this method, as several other automotive brands are targeted across the country using similar techniques.
    Charles Singh, The Tennessean, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • Instead, the Olympian’s attention deviated to the officer’s appearance.
    Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • That’s not dissimilar from what happened in the TikTok case, where the justices — including the liberals — deviated from free-speech norms because they were panicked by concerns about China.
    Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • Simply cut it to match the mat and adhere it with tape or glue.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
  • In a final step, the mask was carefully aligned with and applied to the surface of the painting, then adhered in place with a thin spray coating of varnish.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • But Boone and company could not find a way to get the ball past Rath.
    Frank Rajkowski, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025
  • Park Eun-bin stars as Young-woo, a rookie attorney on the autism spectrum who pairs her intelligence with a unique perspective to help her clients in novel ways.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 July 2025
Verb
  • The downside is that each method has a potential reaction from the AGI or ASI that could turn things ugly.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The transfers, which had not been previously reported, signal a significant expansion in the Trump administration's efforts to turn parts of Guantanamo Bay into immigration detention facilities to hold foreigners facing deportation.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez July 1, CBS News, 1 July 2025

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“Tack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tack. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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