tack
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The Cardinals continued to tack on against the Dodgers’ bullpen, powered by three more home runs, off right-hander Seth Halvorsen, lefty Alex Vesia and lefty Justin Wrobleski, fresh off the injured list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Sarkis Khoury, head of antiquities at Lebanon's culture ministry, told AFP the war had forced archaeologists to switch tack.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
CEO Ernie Herrman took a seemingly different rhetorical tack on his company’s earnings call Wednesday by uttering “self-inflicted” twice and invoking an “execution issue” five times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Plus, the House of Mouse was already changing up its rhetorical tack to mount a fulsome self-defense on free speech and free press grounds.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Grabbing a tack from a small jar, I hang his cartoon on the wall below it.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
For a company founded by ex-OpenAI executives disaffected with Sam Altman’s business practices, it seemingly has little compunction about the aggressive tacks it’s already taken to shore up its $380 billion bottom line.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2026
“Investors are getting down to brass tacks and saying, ‘What do we want to own over the next few months?’”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
The Georgetown law graduate sharply changed tacks in dealing with his critics, from President Donald Trump on down.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
His plays demonstrate a fierce effort to get down to brass tacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025
The walls were made of concrete blocks, and tacks couldn’t be used, of course.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
Just about every supplier has tacked on fuel surcharges to Golden Corral’s bills as diesel prices have shot up this year, Trenary said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
At an election rally in the town of Querfurt, 70-year-old Gerd has tacked a small, frayed German flag to the handles of his mobility scooter.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The bottom half of the order tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the seventh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
To win loan deals in recent years, Ares allowed many borrowers to defer paying cash interest with payments-in-kind, or PIK, that get tacked on to the outstanding loan.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
“Knew they would. But they were pretty decent about it. Didn’t say anything, just tacked the old bill onto my dad’s.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
On new loan originations, lenders are tacking a bigger margin on to the base interest rates, especially for larger companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Michael Cochran is calculating and tacking on additional per-box fuel costs to the Florida lemons he sells to local retailers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
The shipping companies are also tacking on war and fuel surcharges to some of their routes and scrambling to offer pricier on-land options to their customers.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
It meant Southgate was comfortable tacking thorny issues that arose during his tenure, such as racism.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
From the corner of her eye, she watched her uncle tacking peacefully up the driveway.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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