Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tack (up)
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Another came on a comebacker that nailed his right-pitching thumb in the fourth.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2026 -
We low-key think Genevieve might have nailed it.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
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To celebrate, the president wants to offer free admissions that day to the country’s national parks, a self-serving gesture, no doubt, but one that is no surprise for a man who spent much of his adult life plastering his name on the sides of buildings, airplanes and casino hotels.—
Leonard Greene,
Mercury News,
27 Dec. 2025
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In one scene, Gracie Abrams texts Taylor a picture of the singer plastered on the side of a hotel in Indianapolis.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2025
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On Election Day on May 26, as results were coming in, Burrows posted to social media congratulating Paxton on his win — 30 minutes before the Associated Press called the race for Paxton.—
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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Zelensky also posted footage showing explosions and several fires at one Russian facility and a huge plume of thick, black smoke rising behind a high-rise building.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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Others proclaim that we should be darned happy that AI seems to work.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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This cage, the image proclaims, is America.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture in geometry.—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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The two-member, all-Republican commission could choose to end it quietly without bringing a complaint, with no minority party commissioners to object or publicize the choice.—
Lauren Feiner,
The Verge,
1 June 2026
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Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, widely broadcast on the BBC, and translated into fourteen languages.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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The Stanley Cup Final is here, and broadcast executives across the continent are crying in their beds.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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“Tack (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tack%20%28up%29. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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