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tackle

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






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“I would like to see it addressed in the lame-duck session, with a fiscal-commission bill attached,” said the Concord Coalition’s Bourdeaux, referring to proposals for a bipartisan panel that would tackle the national debt.

From MarketWatch Sep. 20, 2026

The government said the transfer into public ownership would tackle overcrowding by introducing 25 additional daily services from December.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

The project is designed to tackle two related problems.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Successful completion of one project often led customers to tackle bigger projects, and it was all turbocharged by the country’s large and aging housing stock.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

At recess, I walked up to Thatcher; me—a scrawny elf girl the size of a small second-grader standing up to a future varsity football player, offensive tackle.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

In “Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings,” Jared Diamond tackles the question of how much individual leaders matter to the course of events.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 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

He won an Academy Award for best documentary for "Taxi to the Dark Side," which tackles the US military's interrogation practices in Afghanistan.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

School uniform swap shop 'saves money and tackles second hand clothes stigma'

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

In a 19-3 Cotton Bowl loss to Nebraska, he started at safety and was in on nine tackles and intercepted a pass.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

If the customer is looking for a large-scale transformation—like reinventing its finance group around AI—the Accenture pod starts by identifying which processes AI can actually reinvent and the order in which they should be tackled.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Bilton sees AI as the kind of defining story “60 Minutes” tackled in previous eras, including the Vietnam War, the fight against Big Tobacco and the Sept. 11 attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Aditi Shrikant and Beth Pinsker tackled the above question:

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

I tackled her and rolled us into the shadows as a Jackboot down the wall turned.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Tice insisted the events had not distracted the party from the issues it was tackling, saying there were good days and bad days in politics.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

"For us, a huge part of tackling FGM is prevention," Roma Ullah, from the centre, said.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Doubts about how committed Fed rate setters are to tackling inflation have hurt the central bank’s sway over the bond market.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

But EDL, charged with maintaining the grid, is tackling large debts incurred during the expansion and due to consumer subsidies.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

At best, we could stumble into Kashgar and try somehow to reassemble our stock at the grand market where merchants unloaded their goods before tackling the mountain pass or turning back eastward to Turfan.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri




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