TACK (UP) Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

tack (up)

verb

Definition of tack (up)

as in to nail

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Verb

All that said, Vedder didn’t completely nail it on his first try.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026
The San Diego native has started all 24 of UCLA’s games during his two seasons in Westwood, nailing 36 of his 44 field-goal attempts, including five out his nine attempts from at least 50 yards.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of nail

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Building affordable housing at scale means politicians need to break up with wealthy special interests like the construction accident lawyers who plaster the city and MTA buses with billboards and ads.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
The prediction market was hardly the only company to plaster its logo on every available surface.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of plaster

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One of the month’s biggest job generators was the leisure and hospitality sector, which added 62,000 jobs, after having posted job losses of 21,000 and 54,000 in July and June, respectively.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Early on Thursday morning technical researcher Eric Lu sparked worldwide excitement and confusion by posting a sequence of 130 digits on X (formerly Twitter).

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of post

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On Thursday, Doocy will broadcast live from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
Dominion alleged that the cable network operator had knowingly broadcast false claims that Dominion had rigged the 2020 presidential election.

— Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026

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