- present participle of tackle.
tackling
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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
The WTA and World Tennis said "collective action" was required to make "significant progress" in tackling abuse.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Well-organized handwriting blocks note lady courtiers' names, their beauty services and secrets, and tips to tackling unforeseen treatment challenges, like stubborn moles and missing bones.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
"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
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
"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
As from an unreal world Glaucon—whilst he lay—saw the lights of the scattered ships, heard the clank of chains, the rattling of tacklings.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
