- present participle of tackle.
tackling
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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
Two years later, Oxford University philosophers William MacAskill and Toby Ord launched "Giving What We Can," encouraging people to donate at least 10 percent of their income to tackling global poverty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
To anybody with attachment to news as actual events, America’s 12-cylinder capitalism has been tackling the AI agent misalignment problem in a burst of energy second only to its creation of data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Burnham denied that figure but conceded that tackling the issue could make him "unpopular" with some.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
I’d wanted to take the bus to school, like the other kids, but Mom wanted me to spend a few days getting used to school itself before tackling the challenge of the bus.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
But as soon as I got word what happened I bade Ralph to put the tacklings on the ass.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
See how her sayles be rent, her tacklings worne, Her Cable broke, her surest Anchor lost: Her Marryners doe leaue her all forlorne, Yet how shee bends towards that blessed Coast!
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
And now are not our ships' timbers rotted and their tacklings loosed, and do not many of our warriors think in their hearts how their wives and children have long been waiting for their return?
From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Willy Pogany
Betwixt the hollow hanging of a hill, And crooked bending of a craggy rock, The sails wrapt up, the mast and tacklings down, She lies so close that none can find her out.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2 by Christopher Marlowe
Observe the rattling of the tacklings, and see the sheets that fasten the mainsail behind; the force of the wind puts them upon the stretch.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
