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tackle

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






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“Like all correctional agencies, contraband, particularly cell phones, narcotics, and weapons, remains a constant challenge, and we continue to tackle the problem of contraband being introduced into our facilities,” the spokesperson said on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

But readers had many questions that the Explainer couldn’t tackle.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

To tackle it OpenAI unleashed a swarm of 10,000 artificial-intelligence agents, which took 88 hours to arrive at the result and an additional 17 hours to confirm it via the computerized verification program Lean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Amid the increase in costs, Govier said he was also having to tackle thefts - with some using illegal "ghost" registrations to prevent cameras from reading their number plates.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

I wanted my coaches to see that even though I was small, I wasn’t scared to tackle the big skills.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

This month, born of a well-known art-world cliché that has long captured our imagination, Kelly tackles no less than the corps of unidentified women in the canon of Western art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

He made three tackles, including one for a loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The advance tackles a major obstacle in the field and could help move quantum computing closer to becoming fault-tolerant.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

She only has time to swipe it off the top of the cliff before Kento tackles her.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

First Guehi was tackled by Lamine Yamal on the edge of his own box, allowing the Spain winger to drive towards goal and slot in his side's opener.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

There was the squeal of babies who had tackled one another too vigorously.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

The next few years will be marked by BMW’s ability to deliver financial targets in a rapidly evolving automotive market, but the company is tackling all the right strategic topics to improve overall performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The younger Kazan, who developed this project and scripted most of it, has addressed that problem by tackling the entire text, in ways her grandfather couldn’t possibly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Roy, 34, campaigns with an aura of sunny progressive pragmatism, arguing that the city can rein in ballooning liability in part by tackling its vexing infrastructure issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Apart from tackling the ongoing haze, this exercise was aimed at boosting declining water levels at several hydropower dams ahead of a severe dry spell forecast for October.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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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