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verb

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Recent Examples of tackle
Noun
After a three-and-out from the Browns, the Vikings looked to take the lead back, but defensive tackle Maliek Collins had other plans. Frank Nunns O'Connell, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025 On Friday, Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta shared an incredibly unfortunate update on former Ravens defensive tackle and Super Bowl XLVII hero Arthur Jones, who passed away at the age of 39. Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
While tackling global challenges is complicated, what individuals can do is relatively straightforward, like reducing meat consumption without eliminating it altogether. Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025 However, this is too great a task for any one company to tackle alone so forging alliances is key. Miguel A. Torres, Time, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tackle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tackle
Noun
  • Many of those that still produce a large share of their products in cities and towns such as Geneva, Vevey, and Zurich—like Nestlé’s Nespresso coffee arm, DSM-Firmenich, and heavy industrial equipment makers like ABB and Hitachi Energy—are unusual in being able to do so competitively.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer’s modular design allows researchers, aid organizations, and even event organizers to adapt the trailer to their needs, regardless of whether for charging equipment, powering lights and communication devices, or running refrigeration systems.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • O’Brady is now set to undertake another nearly 2,000-mile solo, unsupported crossing of Antarctica for a Netflix documentary from My Octopus Teacher director James Reed.
    Peter White, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In March 2023, Prince William undertook a solo trip to Poland to thank British and Polish troops involved in the conflict and responding to the humanitarian crisis on the front lines.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout the two-day event, the best Amazon Prime Day deals for parents will include huge discounts on everything from cute fall fashion and kids’ toys to baby gear, tech, home goods, and more, starting at $4.
    Katrina Cossey, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Just about everything can be tweaked, even down to grenades and non-lethal gear, creating an endless stream of upgrades and rewards that can be obtained through busy work.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If the thought of budgeting gives you a headache, there's another way to approach managing your money without tracking every expense or obsessing over spreadsheets.
    Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Nozawa approached the decor with the goal of softening the architecture's hard lines and surfaces, while channeling the color palette of the building materials.
    Monika Biegler Eyers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But those plans can be quite narrow and ineffective for addressing flood damage.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The Homeless Congress aims to secure funding for an affordable housing trust fund to address the city's housing shortage.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But don’t fret, there’s good stuff too, like Jacory Croskey-Merritt saving the day.
    Jake Ciely, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But, man, there was plenty of weird stuff in that game.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some plants that go all gold in fall simply don’t have the biochemical apparatus to produce the orange, red and purple pigments that predominate in calendar and screen saver photos of New England’s autumn landscape.
    Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Fluid Science Laboratory — Mike Fincke and Jonny Kim spent time configuring this European Space Agency (ESA) apparatus for researching the physics of fluid in microgravity.
    Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the hands of editor Richard Mettler, some of those fragments serve montages that interlace how the tribes prepare to defend themselves with the way Jalabzeen readies himself to attack.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Having attacked the edge of the six-yard box, Rodon has to back-pedal and meet the ball, again, wide of the goal.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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