tack
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Now tack on the NBA’s $30-million fine and five first-round draft picks to the bill as punishment, announced Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Five-Pocket Tote has classic denim details such as belt loops, shank buttons and bar tack stitching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
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
Varys took tack and saddle down from a peg.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
“Investors are getting down to brass tacks and saying ‘what do we want to own over the next few months,’” MAI’s Grisanti said.
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
“The major work will happen in the months ahead, when we’ll get down to brass tacks and craft a responsible and balanced budget which will help make California more livable and affordable.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025
But when it came to brass tacks, to financial compensation, they were not.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
Ah’d ruther be shot wid tacks than tuh turn over in de bed and stir up de air whilst he is in dere.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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
Another tacked an “s” on Surfside to create surfsidesbeach.org.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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
It tacked well off from them, and then, at the end of a long angle, it tacked again and came back in with the sea breeze;Turner began to row to cut across it.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The chip maker’s $150 billion boost to its buyback authorization lighted a fire under its stock, tacking on $150 billion in market value Monday morning on a lousy day for tech stocks overall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
One trend helping travelers stretch their budgets is “trip stacking,” or tacking a vacation onto something you were already doing out of town.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
The tech-heavy Nasdaq was flat premarket, after tacking higher in after-hours trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
"I don't think tacking one way or tacking the other is how we do that."
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
So tacking now north now south they worked eastward.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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