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tackle

[tak-uhl, tay-kuhl] / ˈtæk əl, ˈteɪ kəl /






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By the same token, he is a good choice for the reader minded to tackle the texts in their original language.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Australia will provide Fiji with Bluebottle drones and training, under a Au$600 million pledge made to Pacific Island countries last month to tackle organised crime at sea, officials said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Who else would willingly tackle the most deeply contentious foods of the entirety of the Jewish diaspora?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Beijing's efforts to tackle the war in Gaza have focused on Palestinian unity.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mike was shoving the Hillside tackle halfway to China.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli

She won all her tackles, had a 90% passing accuracy rate, took four shots, scored once and had another disallowed.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The financing will focus on early-stage companies in Asia developing scalable hardware that tackles the constraints affecting AI development and energy infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Not only that, but his team lost both starting tackles and No. 1 receiver Ladd McConkey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

He also made and won more tackles than any other Chelsea player on Saturday afternoon.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

I walked alongside and took tallies of which players were making tackles and which kids were making big runs.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

Goodwin and her colleagues tackled this problem by examining rare events known as tidal disruption events.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Daniels took a snap, danced around, was tackled and the clock expired.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

But few assets he has tackled have as thorny a history as Genesis Digital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

First Guehi was tackled by Lamine Yamal on the edge of his own box, allowing the Spain winger to drive towards goal and slot in his side's opener.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

They drove home on newly plowed streets, which their little car tackled eagerly.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Most of the global targets they set four years ago -- from tackling invasive species to conserving 30 percent of land and oceans, slashing pollution and protecting threatened species -- are off-track.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Fed’s recently tougher tone about tackling inflation is to blame, too, says Rosenberg, with expectations for rate increases surging in the past six months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Companies based around the San Francisco Bay Area, including OpenAI and Meta, have promoted AI assistants as friendly, cute helpers for tackling tedious tasks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"This could be a powerful approach to tackling other cell death repressors or transcription factors that control genes we want to activate in cancer," Nix said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Midway through the second half, the score was still 5-0 when the Fugees were called for a foul in the box for slide tackling from behind.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John


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