tack
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Now tack on the NBA’s $30-million fine and five first-round draft picks to the bill as punishment, announced Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Sarkis Khoury, head of antiquities at Lebanon's culture ministry, told AFP the war had forced archaeologists to switch tack.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Plus, the House of Mouse was already changing up its rhetorical tack to mount a fulsome self-defense on free speech and free press grounds.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
They drew Silicon Valley investors, and the pair added Pokémon and sports cards, coins and eventually fashion, electronics and a wide range of other items, including knives, horse tack and live plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Sharp as a tack and hip as a hip bone.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
“Brass tacks is that we need people that are going to be willing to fight for mental health services,” Sannappa said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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
“Investors are getting down to brass tacks and saying ‘what do we want to own over the next few months,’” MAI’s Grisanti said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
The Georgetown law graduate sharply changed tacks in dealing with his critics, from President Donald Trump on down.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
“When it comes down to brass tacks, you don’t give a damn about them. Or _ _ r> me. “
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
In the sixth, Teoscar Hernández tacked on two more runs with an opposite-field home run after an errant sinker from Kochanowicz.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 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
But this time, for some reason, he had tacked on the word “alone.”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
For example, a coalition of advocacy groups is seeking to prevent Spectrum from tacking on equipment charges for customers on low-income plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
On new loan originations, lenders are tacking a bigger margin on to the base interest rates, especially for larger companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The shipping companies are also tacking on war and fuel surcharges to some of their routes and scrambling to offer pricier on-land options to their customers.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
The tech-heavy Nasdaq was flat premarket, after tacking higher in after-hours trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
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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