Example Sentences

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More than 50 firefighters have been tackling a fire at Whiteabbey Hospital in County Antrim.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2025

Karahan, who had been the bank’s deputy governor, was part of a new team led by Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek that have been tackling the country’s economic woes through higher borrowing costs.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Elsewhere in Europe, firefighters have been tackling devastating blazes in Greece, Italy and Portugal, driven by searing temperatures and dry and windy conditions that scientists have linked to climate change.

From Reuters • Aug. 25, 2023

Firefighters from across the Highlands, along with deer stalkers and waterbombing by helicopters, have been tackling the flames.

From BBC • May 31, 2023

One job we have been tackling recently is to clear away the underbrush from a good many thousands of acres of desert which have remained undisturbed from the year one until now.

From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Vandercook, Margaret O'Bannon Womack