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tack

noun as in short pin for attaching

verb as in attach

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Though Breed has never been a bleeding-heart progressive, she tacked right in recent years, championing policies to more aggressively move homeless people off the streets and give police more authority and resources to tackle crime.

As with other demographic groups, experts said concerns about inflation, crime and immigration likely fueled the rightward tack among Asian American voters.

Broadway-bound musical “The Devil Wears Prada,” premiering in Chicago, tries a different tack with the story about a woman hired at a fashion magazine.

That suggested that C4 plants had at some point tacked ancestral regulatory elements for bundle sheath genes onto photosynthesis genes, so that DOFs would turn on both sets of genes at the same time.

“There are a lot of Democrats who are pushing for us to tack right.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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