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tack

[tak] / tæk /


NOUN
short pin for attaching
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And, of course, as Snider pointed out, the possibility of the Fed taking a more dovish tack could provide a more bullish equity catalyst.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

Three of the four said they disliked cold lay repairs and that a properly laid hot fill option, done to the proper depth and with a tack coat emulsion, should last years.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

It also takes the mature tack, as it moves back and forth in time, of portraying characters whose life dreams haven’t quite worked out.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

But he then reportedly reversed tack following calls to One Nation colleagues, asking if he could re-do the answer with the correct policy.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

She had once come into his barn and discovered jockey Farrell Jones lying on a cot in the cold, drafty tack room, desperately ill with an infection.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The ending even tacks on a let’s-save-our-hangout rally that could be Velcroed onto any ’80s comedy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

He added that the decision to wait for it to conclude "tacks on five or six years or more", describing it as "an unwarranted delay".

From BBC May 19, 2026

After warm handshakes and a warning about Taiwan from Xi Jinping on Thursday, the Chinese president and Trump were due to get down to brass tacks on Friday with discussions on trade, geopolitics and AI.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

For a company founded by ex-OpenAI executives disaffected with Sam Altman’s business practices, it seemingly has little compunction about the aggressive tacks it’s already taken to shore up its $380 billion bottom line.

From Slate Mar. 3, 2026

Tiny saws, tacks, gouges, carving chisels, fine-gritted sandpapers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

At an election rally in the town of Querfurt, 70-year-old Gerd has tacked a small, frayed German flag to the handles of his mobility scooter.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Rattle needed to rebuild much of its underlying software so that AI agents were at the center of the architecture, not tacked on the outside.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The bottom half of the order tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the seventh.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

To win loan deals in recent years, Ares allowed many borrowers to defer paying cash interest with payments-in-kind, or PIK, that get tacked on to the outstanding loan.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

Bill had pictures cut out from magazines tacked on the walls, mostly faces of beautiful ladies, and in another corner were some pictures Mick had painted last year herself at the free art class.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Private companies added a net 122,000 jobs in May, ADP said Wednesday morning, tacking on more solid gains after the 105,000 roles added in April.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

While the stock had gained 69% over the course of his bullish call, the downgrade proved premature, with the stock tacking on another 28% in gains since then.

From MarketWatch Dec. 15, 2025

Sir Ronald adds that tacking the problem of an overreliance on the US "can only come from diversifying the market, but that's not an overnight achievement".

From BBC Apr. 13, 2025

But McNamara needs exoneration, tacking on post-credits the boy’s written response, declaring his VIP guest innocent of pet-care negligence.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2024

I'm trapped by her words, each one a pin tacking me in place, until a pack of black gossip post-balloons swarms me like a kettle of vultures.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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