as in methods
the means or procedure for doing something
this clearly isn't working, so let's take a different tack in trying to solve the problem
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Recent Examples of tacks
Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Scrub the tacks, then wipe clean with a damp cloth and dry the area thoroughly.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 Jan. 2026
Made from 100 percent cotton, the high-rise, wide, straight leg jean boasts finished seams and bar tacks.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Jan. 2026
As bulletin board material, this is was not worth two thumb tacks.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
Heavy-hitter family offices frequently take multiple tacks when investing in sports.
—Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
The protagonist tacks between monikers, dissatisfied by what each represents.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
And a $279 Master kit tacks on a wireless RX Plus unit too.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
People have forgotten how to read the text for the text, how to engage the text in a really boring, brass-tacks way.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
The new deal tacks on an additional four years, and $106 million of new money.
—Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Scrub the tacks, then wipe clean with a damp cloth and dry the area thoroughly.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 Jan. 2026
Made from 100 percent cotton, the high-rise, wide, straight leg jean boasts finished seams and bar tacks.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Jan. 2026
As bulletin board material, this is was not worth two thumb tacks.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
Heavy-hitter family offices frequently take multiple tacks when investing in sports.
—Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
The protagonist tacks between monikers, dissatisfied by what each represents.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
And a $279 Master kit tacks on a wireless RX Plus unit too.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
People have forgotten how to read the text for the text, how to engage the text in a really boring, brass-tacks way.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacks
Noun
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Unlike classical supercomputers, which excel at simulations and data-heavy tasks, quantum computers operate on fundamentally different principles, enabling new approaches to solving problems that are considered impractical using traditional computing methods.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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There’s a substantial potential market for other methods.—
Ana Castelain,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The holder clips right to your pack or waders and keeps everything in a neat, easy-to-dispense stack.—
Francesca Krempa,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
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The carry handles each have a magnetic piece that then clips together to form a single bar to grasp.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Psychologists doing research can use these AI personas to perform scientific experiments about the efficacy of mental health methodologies and approaches.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Instead, our hope is to provide a computational architecture for allocating resources and improving responses that also serves as a first step toward more sophisticated approaches for full artificial metacognition.—
Ricky J. Sethi,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The American super-brand nails its Tokyo offering with the right balance of East and West.—
Brandon Presser,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026
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Deutch nails every joke in this slapstick comedy that keeps the out-of-pocket zingers coming nonstop, complimented perfectly by her crew of Yellow Brick Road (Hollywood Boulevard) nomads.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In elementary education, many students have suffered from unscientific reading strategies.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Earlier phases examined high-level safety objectives, passive safety features, cooling systems, containment strategies, and the management of severe accident conditions, with reports from these phases already published.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The team used vacuum or micro-injection techniques The team with LLNL’s Nuclear and Chemical Sciences (NACS) Division, developed the radiochemical techniques to purify target material.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
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This short film blends traditional animation with abstract expressionism using innovative video-to-video techniques.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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This is an adjustable graphics-card brace, and its screw tightens the part that clamps it to the slide.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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Here, Lloyd clamps a muzzle — part fetish club, part Bane — over Lucky’s mouth while Pozzo pushes him in a wheelchair (the actor, Michael Patrick Thornton, uses a chair).—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The shift toward burden-sharing is showing up in other ways.—
Ana Castelain,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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There were two ways to hunt for a colonial Spanish shipwreck in the Americas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Tacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacks. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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