tacked

verb

past tense of tack
1
as in zigzagged

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2
as in tied

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacked
  1. zigzagged
  2. tied
  3. veered
  4. adhered
  5. deviated
  6. glued
  7. swung
  8. clamped
Verb
  • Cardinals shortstop Masyn Winn hit a flyout to Crow-Armstrong, who zigzagged a bit before making a slightly awkward catch for the first out of the frame.
    — Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Stocks zigzagged up and down several times following the release.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Definition of zigzagged
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  • If Bitcoin remains mostly dormant monetary property, miners remain tied to block rewards, transaction fees, treasury strategy, power markets, and adjacent infrastructure plays.
    — Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • Rule 9 - Showdown tiebreaker If the game is still tied at the end of the two-hour time limit, Banana Ball has its own version of extra innings.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 27 July 2026
Definition of tied
Verb
  • The pickup veered off the roadway while the Amazon truck blocked the westbound lanes.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
  • But instead of following that path to its logical conclusion, Rand veered off script.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of veered
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  • But a new fastest time from UAE’s Florian Vermeersch on June 2 of this year — 23km at an average speed of 75kmh — suggests that not everyone has adhered.
    — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • The report found that excessive moisture had caused the adhesive to fail, leaving the roofing membrane no longer properly adhered, according to the lawsuit.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 16 June 2026
Definition of adhered
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  • The Costa Concordia allegedly deviated from its planned route around the Mediterranean Sea to do this.
    — Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
  • And yet at the start of the Mass, a priest read aloud a statement justifying the consecrations as a necessary defense of the faith and criticizing how the Catholic Church today had deviated from tradition.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Definition of deviated
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  • Garden Art Wine corks can be glued together with a hot glue gun to create decorative birdhouses and wreaths to display in the garden.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of glued
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  • Out in the clean air, this pointer swung away from the compass to aim at the plume’s edge, several seconds before the fly physically turned to head back.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026
  • It’s swung as low as $72 early this month and as high as $102 last week on uncertainty about whether the United States and Iran could reach a deal to allow oil tankers to move freely again from the Middle East to customers worldwide.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Definition of swung
Verb
  • Sharon Rocha's mitochondrial DNA clamped in the jaws of a pair of pliers found in [Peterson’s] boat, [and] the presence of concrete debris in the boat cover that matched both the homemade boat anchor and the concrete debris on his flatbed trailer.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • His supporters have clamped their mouths tighter than the federal budget for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of clamped
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