tackling

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tackling

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of tackle

noun tacklings

  1. The process by which something is tackled or dealt with. His struggle with the Church ended in his voyage to Canossa; his tacklings of the problems of industrialism may be said to have reached their high-water mark when, thirty years before this country even approached the problem, […]
  2. The tackle of a vessel.
  3. The harness for drawing a carriage.

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Closest in meaning: grappling, confronting, braving, coping with, grapple, combat, fight, fighting, combating, curbing, handle, attack, turning, attacking, confront, handled

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@misc{tackling_2026,
  title = {tackling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tackling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}