tack
noun
a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
is tacking
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present progressiveof tack (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Now, his administration is tacking back toward some of those same get-tough policies and it is paying off.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
Image: Therabody It’s not surprising that Therabody is tacking on these particular treatments to its facial massager.
From The Verge ● Apr. 12, 2022
The company has 15 products in the pipeline and is tacking toward $1 million in revenue this year.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2018
Pitching through the lumpy seas, skippers lean into the wind trying to see if the opponent is tacking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereafter within three suns it behoves this to fall, and the other to surmount through the force of one who even now is tacking.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell by Charles Eliot Norton
