had been tackling
- past perfect progressive of tackle.
Example Sentences
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The town had been tackling the shortage, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
It was the kind of work that friendly, unassuming Philip Jessup had been tackling ably but not dramatically most of his adult life.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suppose to a fellow who for weeks had been tackling macaroons and limado it must have been like Heaven.
From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
