- present participle of tackle.
tackling
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Chacin said the expanded police presence could help stem violence, but that tackling organized crime required, above all, following the money -- investigating how the proceeds are laundered and who is benefitting most.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
He pledged on Monday that the government would convene the first national summit dedicated to tackling rough sleeping later in the year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Even with the U.A.E.’s newly announced measures, tackling that parallel financing web would remain a challenge, analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Leo Lieghio, vice president of the Irish Road Victims Association, has called for greater urgency in tackling road deaths.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
He’d tried football but hated tackling other players.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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
"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
Her shroudes are torne to pieces & her tacklings to raggs.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
See how her sayles be rent, her tacklings worne, Her Cable broke, her surest Anchor lost: Her Marryners doe leaue her all forlorne, Yet how shee bends towards that blessed Coast!
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
