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to start work on energetically
once I clean the kitchen, I think I'll tackle the bathroom
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Recent Examples of tackled
This is what Bob’s Red Mill, the whole grain manufacturer and a client of mine, tackled first at their Milwaukie, Oregon manufacturing plant.
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Kate Gaertner, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
Break your big goals into smaller, bite-sized pieces that can be tackled week by week.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 2 Oct. 2024
The podcast does an excellent job of documenting the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and sharing these stories helps my clients understand how others have tackled similar challenges.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Bloom workers also tackled a tough engineering problem to fix broken but desperately needed ventilators, and Bloom helped provide a mobile vaccination clinic that served about 80,000 people.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
Once largely seeded with programming that tackled news and politics, Fox Nation has spent past years expanding into lifestyle and documentary programming.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
The team tackled policy conversations not addressed in prior years, emphasizing that retreats are not just for generating new ideas, but staying accountable to long-term plans.
—Open Up, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Kate Gaertner, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
Break your big goals into smaller, bite-sized pieces that can be tackled week by week.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 2 Oct. 2024
The podcast does an excellent job of documenting the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and sharing these stories helps my clients understand how others have tackled similar challenges.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Bloom workers also tackled a tough engineering problem to fix broken but desperately needed ventilators, and Bloom helped provide a mobile vaccination clinic that served about 80,000 people.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
Once largely seeded with programming that tackled news and politics, Fox Nation has spent past years expanding into lifestyle and documentary programming.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024
The team tackled policy conversations not addressed in prior years, emphasizing that retreats are not just for generating new ideas, but staying accountable to long-term plans.
—Open Up, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tackled
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Some questions critics of the system hoped to answer, such as whether the system itself is helping or harming student learning or is biased against more disadvantaged students, were not addressed.Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
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But even then, the extra enforcers haven’t addressed the underlying problem.Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
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While on the ground, Evans is shot twice more with bean bag rounds and attacked twice by a police dog as Evans screams.Christian Martinez, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Roving gangs on scooters attacked and beat Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, overnight in an outburst of what authorities called antisemitic violence.Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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After their convictions, the brothers pursued unsuccessful appeals.Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Eleven million people have fled their homes, pursued by men with guns and followed by famine.Angelina Jolie, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Tackled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tackled. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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