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tackle

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






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But a high tackle by Trinity centre Corey Hall resulted in him being sin-binned early in the second period and, with a man extra, Lindop went over to offer a glimmer of a comeback.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

“We knew he’d get his catches. That’s inevitable — the kid’s a baller. But we knew if we could contain him, rally and tackle, we’d be in a good position.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

But readers had many questions that the Explainer couldn’t tackle.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

To tackle it OpenAI unleashed a swarm of 10,000 artificial-intelligence agents, which took 88 hours to arrive at the result and an additional 17 hours to confirm it via the computerized verification program Lean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I’ll be ready to tackle the tougher stuff, like getting Denny and Brandon to talk.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Lisa Parker, who played with a broken hand, made 47 tackles.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

This month, born of a well-known art-world cliché that has long captured our imagination, Kelly tackles no less than the corps of unidentified women in the canon of Western art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Stewart, a second-year pro from Michigan, made six tackles and had one of the Rams’ two hits on 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The advance tackles a major obstacle in the field and could help move quantum computing closer to becoming fault-tolerant.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Dr. Bigelow tackles that question head-on: "The leading feature of this case is its improbability," Dr. Bigelow admits.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

At a time when other sitcoms occasionally tackled social issues in “very special” episodes and “The Cosby Show” hewed to its namesake star’s dedication to respectability politics, “A Different World” regularly confronted harder topics.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

"In this case we tackled polyethylene, a widely available commodity polymer, using molten salt," he said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

They tackled well and trailed only 14-7 at halftime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

"To suggest this is not an emergency and not something that urgently needs to be tackled is frankly irresponsible."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Beethoven tackled both figures, composing 'Mephisto’s Flea-song’ in tribute to Goethe’s Faust, and a ballet score, The Creatures of Prometheus, in 1801.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Ms. Browne recounts how Darwin experimented with “cascades of ideas” and “oscillated between recording things he had read or heard and tackling on his own the deepest themes of metaphysics.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The next few years will be marked by BMW’s ability to deliver financial targets in a rapidly evolving automotive market, but the company is tackling all the right strategic topics to improve overall performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

For Keiller, the "small wins" - like tackling graffiti - are needed to help change public perception.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Roy, 34, campaigns with an aura of sunny progressive pragmatism, arguing that the city can rein in ballooning liability in part by tackling its vexing infrastructure issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

At the board, I moved as quickly as I could, making my calculations in the white space around the problem and tackling it up to a point.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely




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