In a group chat, adding emoji can feel like tacking up posters on the walls of a virtual clubhouse.
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At best, it is the political equivalent of tacking up plywood against exterior windows to lessen the inevitable damage of an impending storm.
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By targeting people who face bad credit, loaning money, tacking up interest rates and repossessing and reselling used cars, auto lenders are as corrupt as ever.
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"You'd see Anne tacking up posters to advertise the elementary school and middle school plays," said Pierce Homer, a former secretary of transportation under Mr. Kaine and a neighbor.
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The authors of the proposal are not seriously addressing anyone to the left of Lindsey Graham anyway, merely tacking up a convenient fig leaf for the talking heads of the Murdoch media.
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To combat that grimness, many students try to decorate their rooms in a cheerful, personal way, which for most means tacking up a poster of their favorite band and calling it a day.
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But its Chanel décor is down pat: When she moved in in the 1930s, she came with her own coromandel lacquer screens, lamps and camel sofas, tacking up images by her artist friends Jean Cocteau and Christian Bérard, and generally making herself at home.
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They feature basic pony care from catching the pony, grooming, correct tacking up and untacking.
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Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack. Equipping a horse is often referred to as tacking up. A room to store such equipment, usually near or in a stable, is a tack room.
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"Spanish Ladies" is the story of British navy men sailing north from Spain and along the English Channel. The crew are unable to determine their latitude by sighting as the distance between Ushant to the south and the Scillies to the north is wide. Instead, they locate themselves by the depth and the sandy bottom they have sounded. Arthur Ransome, in his novel Peter Duck, suggests that the succession of headlands on the English shore indicates the ship tacking up-channel away from the French coast, identifying a new landmark on each tack.
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If the animal begins to panic, a person can pull the working end to quickly release the knot before it becomes too tight to untie quickly. The purpose of such a knot is to be easy to untie even when under significant tension. However, some animals do learn to untie themselves and may require the loose end of the rope to be passed through the slipped loop to prevent this occurrence, or be tied with alternative methods of restraint. Animals, usually horses, may also be placed in crossties, usually for grooming, tacking up and related activities.
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