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tackle

[tak-uhl, tey-kuhl] / ˈtæk əl, ˈteɪ kəl /






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"We all need to do more to tackle antisemitism," Miliband said, "But I believe we can do that and stand up for British values."

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

There are some opportunities for the company to tackle in streaming, but perhaps not as many as once hoped when Walmart acquired Vizio.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

But she didn’t want to tackle sanding, disassembling and repainting the latter entirely.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Kenyan start-up ZeroBionic, co-founded by 22-year-old Norah Kimathi, hopes to tackle some of the educational difficulties they face.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

So I turn the phone over, and she takes it into another room to talk while Rosa helps me tackle math at their kitchen table.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

School uniform swap shop 'saves money and tackles second hand clothes stigma'

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Then there’s freshman linebacker Aydan Steen, who contributed two huge tackles in the second half in critical situations.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

And Scott, although he didn’t have to make any tackles, shanked a punt 20 yards down the right sideline from the Chargers’ 9-yard line, setting up a 29-yard Rams touchdown drive.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

They won fewer than 70% of their 16 tackles and committed 17 fouls.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

I bounce over to Brayden, but before I reach him, Malik tackles me.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

If the customer is looking for a large-scale transformation—like reinventing its finance group around AI—the Accenture pod starts by identifying which processes AI can actually reinvent and the order in which they should be tackled.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Aditi Shrikant and Beth Pinsker tackled the above question:

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

So the head of communications, for instance, became the head of finance as they tackled issues.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

LFB said the cause of the fire was not yet known, but firefighters tackled a blaze at the same facility in June.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

“That doesn’t sound like the Elliot Mason I know. Did you hit your head a little hard when I tackled you?”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Burnham insisted he would "bring the welfare budget down" by tackling the number of young people not in education, employment or training.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Already there are hapless teams wondering if it’s time to stop tackling their opponents in order to chase some of those New Orleans quarterbacking genes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Downing Street said the leaders would also focus on tackling the "emerging use of mega dinghies", or larger more powerful boats bringing irregular migrants to England's south coast.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Justice Secretary Neil Gray said tackling violence against women and girls is a "top priority" for the government and part of that was addressing attitudes and influences.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Over here they were shouting and hitdng a tackling dummy.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor




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