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Example sentences for: tacking

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Garry Wills wrote in the New York Review of Books a few years ago that "tacking"--back and forth, between left and right--was an honorable way of getting from the status quo to a new philosophy and a new vision.
Inflating him was as simple as tacking the augmentative suffixes -one or -oni --as in Giacomoni --to the root name or its variation to get big James.
True enough (I concede in advance), there aren't many pols out there who actually live up to this standard-but let's not give the vital center a bad name by pretending that it's no more than dishonest tacking.
I see candidates--some, anyway--really trying to stake out new middle ground; you see tacking and opportunistic positioning.
It doesn't mean tacking and trying to have it both ways-as Hillary is indeed trying to do, and her husband has been doing for years now.