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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a tackling" is not correct and is not typically used in written English.
It may be intended to refer to the act of tackling, but it is more common to use "tackle" as a verb or "a tackle" as a noun in sports contexts.
Example: "The player made a great tackle to stop the opposing team from scoring."
Alternatives: "a challenge" or "an attempt".
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This was seen in ball-carrying players sustaining direct impact from a tackling opponent directly on the shoulder and in tackled players falling onto the shoulder.
The only non-senior team captain last fall, Allen is a tackling machine.
"My injury was never really a tackling injury, it was more of a load-and-impact thing.
But Bongiovi has no problem toiling in a program and serving as a tackling dummy without any promise of playing in a game.
And not by the poor bowl mascot Obie, because we know exactly when the walking orange got turned into a tackling dummy after one Mountaineer touchdown.
When Steph started bawling out Greg the other night, and rushing him as if he were a tackling dummy, I felt an oddly comforting warmth.
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A mathematician tackles a weedy problem.
That was a motion about tackling Assad.
Feel like tackling a Thomas Keller recipe?
"This is not a tackle".
A linebacker? Maybe he's a tackle.
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