tack
Example Sentences
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Instead, Witkoff encouraged Ukrainian officials to try another tack: What good was a handful of missiles going to accomplish?
Chesterton took a different tack—gratitude is “the highest form of thought.”
But Diamondbacks right fielder Jake McCarthy prevented the Dodgers from tacking on by making a leaping catch on the warning track of Muncy’s drive with a runner aboard to end the seventh.
From Los Angeles Times
Notably, this idea of "parental rights" only tacks one way, towards the worst parents in a school.
From Salon
Then in the top of the ninth, Abrams overthrew a runner at third that caused the Braves to tack on another run in a 7-2 contest.
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
