tack (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tack (up)
Verb
  • Drape a denim jacket over top to nail that cool-girl look.
    Michelle Rostamian, People.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Yet what this film really nails is the battalion camaraderie that goes beyond spending hours, days, weeks with the same folks and flips into something else entirely once shots are fired.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Even so, between 75 and 100 fans still pack two floors of the Playwright Irish Pub in midtown Manhattan, where the walls of one room are plastered with Madrid memorabilia.
    Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • There were reminders plastered everywhere to stay 6 feet apart.
    Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • Trump posted a reply the morning of May 16 on his Truth Social account.
    Chris Jordan, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • The bit was posting archival photos from Gen X’s formative years, together with wisecracks about how life was better/tougher/cooler/randier back then.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Notably, an anonymous poll of his NBA peers by Sam Amick and Josh Robbins of The Athletic proclaimed the 6-foot-5 Iowa State product to be the league's most overrated player.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • Additionally, all 2025 mayoral candidates, former police commissioners, district attorneys, and public officials must proclaim that NYC should not obey the egregious orders.
    Arnold Kriss, New York Daily News, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The back-and-forth has been highly publicized and even included a war of words between Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
  • Israel also publicized a photo of one of its F-35s flying high over Lebanon’s capital city, Beirut, in broad daylight.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • The two remaining events this season – the August Summer Grind in San Diego and the December season-ending Grass League Championship at Grass Clippings Rolling Hills – will be broadcast on Golf Channel during prime time.
    Candace Oehler, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • Some games will be broadcast on ESPN3, a live streaming platform within ESPN’s digital products (the app, the website, etc.).
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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“Tack (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tack%20%28up%29. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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