tackling
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Construction companies are also tackling another issue: workplace harassment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
In December, singer Sabrina Carpenter was angered when her song “Juno” was used in the soundtrack for a Department of Homeland Security promotional video featuring clips of officers tackling and handcuffing people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Under this accord, nations set 23 global targets for 2030 including protecting 30 percent of land and oceans, tackling pollution and invasive species, and restoring degraded ecosystems.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Elections are seen as a crucial step to stabilizing the government and tackling rampant crime in Haiti, which has been engulfed for years by gang warfare and political chaos.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Twig yelped, practically tackling me into a hug.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
Then before school was out, he took off all the tacklings, and scattered the logs along the shore, so that they had the appearance of having drifted there in the night.
From Rod of the Lone Patrol by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
She was white to the lips, but the lips were firmly set; whereas Mr. Goodfellow's jaw hung as though loosed from its tacklings.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast; they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
"Here he lingered and cast off his tacklings and gave me his last kiss."
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
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