tacked

past tense of tack

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacked
Verb
  • From Slaten to Steven Matz to Zack Kelly, Cora zigzagged through the Yankees lineup.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That inclusivity has been on display with the selections of both Lamar and Ocasio, the latter of whom Jay-Z praised in a statement tied to the announcement.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Examining issues tied to mass incarceration, says Holt, often turns up compelling stories.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Season 1 of the podcast kicked off with astrophysicist Neil deGrass Tyson, but quickly veered into a much more eclectic lineup.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The white Chevrolet Silverado, reported stolen earlier from the Flagstaff Police Department, veered onto a guardrail before flipping multiple times and crashing into a tree.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The move comes amid ongoing debate about funding for Ohio's public schools after the statehouse deviated from the bipartisan Fair School Funding Plan made four years prior with the passage of the 2026-27 state budget in June.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025
  • During the speech, however, Kemp periodically deviated from building up Astra to hurling insults at several of his competitors in the launch industry.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The officer swung his undercover truck around, radioing his team to converge on a man who was depositing a $50 bill into the machine.
    Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Over the last two years, his role and those expectations have swung the other way.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With hundreds of Elanco employees gathered with blue confetti at the ready, Indy, a rescue shelter dog turned service-dog-in-training, performed the official ribbon cutting, or in this case ribbon biting.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When her biological daughter turned 7, however, something shifted.
    Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the years went on, their paths diverged financially.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The team pieced together what’s known as a phylogenetic tree showing how different human species may have diverged from one another over the past 1 million years.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Tacked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacked. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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