- present participle of tackle.
tackling
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The company’s CEO Bob Wright told The Wall Street Journal’s Heather Haddon that the chain is rolling out a five-point strategy tackling food quality and value, operations, store upgrades, marketing and digital sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Silvestre's involvement represents a challenge from within Fifa itself, with the 16-strong Players' Voice Panel having been formed by the governing body to monitor and advise on tackling racism in football.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Hyundai is tackling the brain and supply-chain elements, the JPMorgan analysis said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
More than 900 firefighters were tackling the blaze, using fire engines, helicopters and bulldozers, in an effort to clear the tinder-dry brush.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
At the last moment, she leaped to one side, tackling Annabeth.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
"Here he lingered and cast off his tacklings and gave me his last kiss."
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
"Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail; then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey."
From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
She was white to the lips, but the lips were firmly set; whereas Mr. Goodfellow's jaw hung as though loosed from its tacklings.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And now are not our ships' timbers rotted and their tacklings loosed, and do not many of our warriors think in their hearts how their wives and children have long been waiting for their return?
From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Willy Pogany
But as soon as I got word what happened I bade Ralph to put the tacklings on the ass.
From New Irish Comedies by Lady Gregory
