take a tack
Frequency: 7.813.5 per million words
to start using a particular approach
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Examples (10)
- New research is taking a different tack.
- The committee decided to take a more aggressive tack on the issue.
- If this approach doesn't work, we'll have to take a new tack.
- Why don't we take a more customer-centric tack in our strategy?
- Historically, the company has always taken a conservative tack.
- He suggested taking a completely different tack to solve the problem.
- The lawyer took a surprisingly sympathetic tack during the cross-examination.
- They are currently taking an experimental tack with their product development.
- Perhaps it's time to take a more direct tack in our negotiations.
- She would often take an unconventional tack in her artistic endeavors.