as in methods
the means or procedure for doing something
this clearly isn't working, so let's take a different tack in trying to solve the problem
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Recent Examples of tacks
Troy Renck, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
Heavy-hitter family offices frequently take multiple tacks when investing in sports.
—Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
The protagonist tacks between monikers, dissatisfied by what each represents.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
And a $279 Master kit tacks on a wireless RX Plus unit too.
—New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
People have forgotten how to read the text for the text, how to engage the text in a really boring, brass-tacks way.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Thus far the Army has provided 37,800 feet of HESCO barriers, 400 super tacks, 112,000 sandbags and 25,000 feet of polyethylene sheeting.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito brought up the measure at the hearing on Wednesday, asking the lawyer for the petitioners, Neal Katyal, why the administration wouldn’t simply shift tacks.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
As bulletin board material, this is was not worth two thumb tacks.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for tacks
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All the different construction methods.—
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Over decades, advocates employed such methods as petitions, public demonstrations, organized marches and legal challenges until the movement finally achieved victory with the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, when women were finally granted the legal right to vote.—
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The carry handles each have a magnetic piece that then clips together to form a single bar to grasp.—
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For messing up, Martha clips Gabriel’s wings, forcing him to live life as a human, with a new casual wardrobe to match and a taste for fast food.—
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Chance of lightning increases as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is overhead.—
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Reflecting different creative approaches and scopes of production.—
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This is a practically perfect translation, capturing the books’ madness, eccentric humor, and darkly inventive imagination — and Harris, of course, nails it.—
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Wil Lutz nails the 24-yard field goal.—
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Lightweight luggage, versatile clothing, and clever carry-on strategies that anticipate the little headaches most travelers overlook.—
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Despite over a century of investigation, there is still no cure, but advances in diagnostic tools, treatments and preventive strategies continue to offer hope for slowing the disease and improving quality of life for patients and caregivers.—
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The team used vacuum or micro-injection techniques The team with LLNL’s Nuclear and Chemical Sciences (NACS) Division, developed the radiochemical techniques to purify target material.—
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This short film blends traditional animation with abstract expressionism using innovative video-to-video techniques.—
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This is an adjustable graphics-card brace, and its screw tightens the part that clamps it to the slide.—
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Here, Lloyd clamps a muzzle — part fetish club, part Bane — over Lucky’s mouth while Pozzo pushes him in a wheelchair (the actor, Michael Patrick Thornton, uses a chair).—
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This may seem counterintuitive, but the key is that ‘cozy’ is addressed in various ways throughout the home, not that every element is done in excess.—
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Because there are many different ways to make money outside of a traditional job, there are several types of 1099 forms.—
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“Tacks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tacks. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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