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tackle

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






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That’s the same methodology Park teaches his students when they tackle tough subjects on stage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

He’s been playing tackle football only since eighth grade.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

The Guardian reports internships designed to secure work for young people with special needs should be put on "turbocharge" to help tackle the youth job crisis.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

He said his firefighters have "very specialist skills" to tackle wildfires with military assistance enabling him to "focus all of that in the right place".

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

I haven’t even said hello to Sara, and these three are already playing tackle tag in the front yard.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Playing the nickel position in Serra’s 4-2-5 defensive alignment, Ace contributed 52 tackles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

“Source Foundry tackles the tightest bottleneck: tooling for semiconductor manufacturing, starting in lithography.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

"Plastic waste is accumulating at alarming rates, and clean hydrogen is essential for decarbonizing energy. This technology tackles both of these challenges in a creative and scalable way."

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

The messaging from both super PAC operations tackles the issue of state regulations.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Every now and then someone would come up to me and whisper, “Hey, Robert, put me down for a couple of extra tackles, would you?”

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

In south Wales, about 14 separate fires were being tackled by crews on Sunday.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The blaze was one of several being tackled across England and Wales on Thursday, the hottest day of the year so far.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Aoísha O'Neill, 18, who is Pearse's sister said establishing a dedicated Minister for Women's Safety and Health would bring together women's issues "so they can be tackled in a more efficient way".

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The fire service declared a major incident on Friday as more than 100 firefighters tackled the flames.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Pinkie and Philip had mounted the back of the forward who had tackled Ben.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

It also says it wants to spend extra money on tackling benefit fraud which it predicts will save as much as £2.8bn a year.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

That led her to co-found the Coalition Against Stalkerware, an international working group tackling the problem of software tools frequently used to spy on unknowing romantic partners.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

Croatian firefighters were tackling "one of the worst" wildfires in the country's history, fire chief Slavko Tucakovic said, as flames engulfed homes and injured 19 people on the coast.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

It is a complicated question that he answered while tackling your biggest enemies in retirement.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

At best, we could stumble into Kashgar and try somehow to reassemble our stock at the grand market where merchants unloaded their goods before tackling the mountain pass or turning back eastward to Turfan.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri




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