Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tack (up)
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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 -
Drape a denim jacket over top to nail that cool-girl look.—
Michelle Rostamian,
People.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Many of the walls are plastered with chukum, a protective resin used by the ancient Mayans that adds a wispy texture to the concrete.—
David Shortell,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2025
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Posters are plastered around the city and ads line the tube (the London subway), but there’s one creative decision that may be doing a better job at marketing the show than anyone imagined, luring hundreds of spectators to the London Palladium every night.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
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Troops have been posted outside federal buildings in an increasingly quiet downtown Civic Center — a few square blocks within the 500-square-mile city.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Morrison snagged the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen of the 17th Congressional District, the commissioner posted on social media.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
24 June 2025
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In front of an excited crowd of Venezuelans in Miami in 2019, the president proclaimed that Maduro’s days were numbered.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2025
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The holiday marks the date in 1865 – more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation – that Major General Gordon Granger and 2,000 Union Army troops came to Galveston Bay, Texas, to proclaim freedom for more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 June 2025
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The Heat also have gone without selections in 2018 and ’16. Unlike other teams, the Heat in recent years have not publicized their workouts.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
18 June 2025
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She’s made a rather deliberate choice to keep her distance from the ongoing and highly publicized feud between King Charles and Prince Harry.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2025
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While very few clubs are as exposed to key person risk as Wrexham, all are vulnerable to any weakening in demand for the right to broadcast or stream their matches.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.—
Mychael Schnell,
The Hill,
22 June 2025
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“Tack (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tack%20%28up%29. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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