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tackle

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






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As workloads mount and job security ebbs, employees are logging in on Sundays to tackle unfinished tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Right tackle Joe Alt is out with a neck injury and left tackle Rashawn Slater was placed on injured reserve after undergoing surgery for a high-ankle sprain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

After not recording a tackle against the 49ers, Garrett said it was “the worst version of myself that I put out there.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

In August, the government launched a national action plan to tackle waste crime, which it estimates costs the country more than £1bn every year.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea and begins to tackle the mountains of paper.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

He also made and won more tackles than any other Chelsea player on Saturday afternoon.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Urschel’s paper tackles a conjecture that has existed since the 1990s and that he first became interested in while an undergraduate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Pasquariello tackles a couple of other caveats investors might cite about buying stocks here.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Lisa Parker, who played with a broken hand, made 47 tackles.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

“A Miss Teen Dream doesn’t rely on others to solve her problems. She tackles her issues head-on, with a smile and a wave,” said her other self.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Raman also spent a year as executive director of Time’s Up Entertainment, which tackled sexual harassment in Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

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

Republicans and Democrats alike had tackled the problem at state and local levels, investing in healthy living, building more sidewalks and community gardens—a proof point that there was common political ground to be explored.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Companies based around the San Francisco Bay Area, including OpenAI and Meta, have promoted AI assistants as friendly, cute helpers for tackling tedious tasks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"This could be a powerful approach to tackling other cell death repressors or transcription factors that control genes we want to activate in cancer," Nix said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

It also contends that its messaging and image-sharing apps should not have to face additional requirements under the OSA, such as tackling paid-for fraud ads.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Sefcovic said the EU wanted to deliver on three main objectives including tackling export surges from China to the bloc's market, especially in critical sectors, and increasing exports from Europe to China.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

She was so scairt of the cap’n that she was jumping at every owl hoot and near tackling me whenever something rustled ’gainst a branch in the woods out back.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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