tackle
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The company pointed to job losses from artificial intelligence as one issue it may tackle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Botman was shown a yellow card - the correct sanction for a reckless tackle - by referee Jarred Gillett for the Newcastle centre-back's 18th minute challenge on Villa striker Nicolas Jackson on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Micky van de Ven: Superb tackle to stop Brandon Thomas-Asante in the first half and solid all-round display.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
David Beasley had called on billionaires to “step up now, on a one-time basis” to tackle global hunger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
I tried out for the team at Coalwood Junior High for three straight years, but there was no way I was ever going to be anything more than a tackle dummy.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Ford has 15 tackles, one for a loss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Manzambi glided past powerless Fenerbahce tackles, Ibraham Mbaye found space to exploit - even if he needs to improve - and Jackson was clinical.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
While “Demolition” again tackles thwarted desire and self-loathing, this time it comes in the form of a wildly catchy rock anthem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Sophomore Emmanuel Garcia leads the team with 41 tackles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
This saint tackles difficult situations, matters of life and death.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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Jennifer Taylor, National Union of Students Cymru president, said the comments were "dangerous, harmful and are reinforcing a toxic culture on our campuses that must be tackled head on".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
He has accused the Oscar-winning filmmaker, whose documentaries have tackled Scientology, Enron, Lance Armstrong and Elizabeth Holmes, of having “zero integrity” and dismissed his movies as “boring af.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
At a time when other sitcoms occasionally tackled social issues in “very special” episodes and “The Cosby Show” hewed to its namesake star’s dedication to respectability politics, “A Different World” regularly confronted harder topics.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
"In this case we tackled polyethylene, a widely available commodity polymer, using molten salt," he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
He’d picked up the notebook Frank had dropped when Lucy tackled him.
From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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"If we use the strengths of fluorescence for molecular specificity and the strength of iISM for label-free context and dynamics, we can really start tackling questions that have been difficult to address before."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
A California e-commerce platform is fueling the rise of live shopping in the United States, taking on giants such as TikTok and tackling concerns that the app is draining people’s bank accounts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Others are testing whether degraders are more effective at tackling disease on the first go-round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
But Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Grahame, the national police lead on tackling vehicle crime, tells us officers' efforts - like the night-time operation in east London - are having an impact.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“She decided we needed to do an extra scrub down of the bay where we make the salads, so she’s tackling that.”
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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