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How to use the word tacking in a Sentence?

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When I see behavior like that anywhere, when somebody takes these very public positions on something where Texas Gov. Greg Abbott .'re tacking to the right, it's because Texas Gov. Greg Abbott .'re worried about a primary.

– Ruth Wasem

Found on CNN
2 years ago

New York must stop all of its unnecessary lawsuits harrassment, start cleaning New York up, and lowering taxes. Build relationships, but dont bring Fredo ! Trump said, tacking on a insult referring to Chris Cuomo, Chris Cuomo. The Fredo reference is a nod to The Godfather films, and a character in the film who ultimately betrays Chris Cuomo. The Fredo reference was first made by a Trump supporter last summer in a viral video that saw the television journalist get irate with the man for the insult. In the video, Chris Cuomo says the term was meant as a derogatory term for Chris Cuomo Italian heritage, similar to the N-word for African Americans. ( Punk-a ** b ***** s from the right call me Fredo, Chris Cuomo said in the video. My name is Chris Cuomo. Im an anchor on CNN. Fredo is from The Godfather. He was a weak brother and they use it as an Italian aspersion.) DHS SUSPENDS GLOBAL ENTRY FOR New Yorkers ; WILL AFFECT 800K OVER 5 YEARS Chris Cuomo had said hes willing to restore federal access to driving records on a limited basis. But in a midday news conference, Chris Cuomo pledged not to let federal immigration agents see lists of people who had applied for a new type of license that doesnt require applicants to prove they are in the U.S. legally. If they think theyre going to extort New York into giving them a database of undocumented people, theyre wrong. I will never do that.

– Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

What I want to know is, are we tacking crime effectively? i want us to get into this space where we don't arrest juveniles. I do not want us locking up young black males.

– Chief Shields

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He's certainly tacking right to try to secure the hard-right base that he thinks will propel him to victory in the Iowa caucuses, he may be short-term in his thinking here.

– Doug Gross

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Tacking that responsibility onto a TSA officer in addition to all the screening duties, all the duties they have to do at the checkpoint beyond that, I think is a recipe for disaster.

– Chad Wolf

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One thing that you have to watch for is people just tacking the words poverty and inequality onto a pre-existing agenda that has very little to do with addressing those problems, for the most part, I hear lots of the same trickle-down economics that helped to get us into this mess in the first place.

– Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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