The phrase "addressed something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of dealing with or discussing a particular issue or topic.
Example: "In the meeting, we addressed something that had been troubling the team for weeks."
Alternatives: "tackled an issue" or "discussed a matter".
'Men's Lives' addressed something terribly important to this area".
The president, who attended the breakfast with his wife, Michelle, also addressed something he rarely speaks about: his citizenship.
This is a pressing national security threat that remains to be adequately addressed — something unlikely to happen as long as a president who was elected with Russian help remains in office.
"One of the issues with living in a country like the U.K. is that the courts can step in to opine in the event that existing legislation has not addressed something," he wrote in an email, adding that there could also be trademark issues if Ms. Gorjanc were to try to use the name of the source of the cells as a marketing element.
"If, after the third week, the person hasn't addressed something that's been discussed before, they may hear from the group their solution to saving the world doesn't make sense to anyone else". The goal is that, at the end of the program, participants have learned their lessons well enough to present to a group of investors.
A peculiarity of certain external and non-self-directable acts is that the relevant utterance must of necessity be not only directed toward a certain subject but also registered or grasped by this subject in a further act: a command must be received and understood by those to whom it is addressed (something which does not apply, for example, to an act of blessing or cursing).
"If it addresses something they're angry about, like executive compensation, fine.
"Do you address something head on and risk making it a mainstream phenomenon?
She said: "I'd really like to address something that is weighing very heavy on my heart.
Fair play to Fraser for using humour to address something very raw: some will find her story affecting.
They must have been addressing something in the sky — not aliens in flying saucers, as some suggest, but their gods.
