tackled

English

Verb

tackled

simple past and past participle of tackle

Adjective

tackled (comparative more tackled, superlative most tackled)

(not comparable) Made of ropes tackled together.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
  My man shall be with thee, / And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair.
(not comparable) Having been forced to the ground.
- 2011, Mathew Brown, ‎Patrick Guthrie, ‎Greg Growden, Rugby For Dummies, page 83:
  Tackled players must either pass the ball immediately or release it at once by placing it on the ground in any direction (ideally, the ball should be placed backward, but that isn't always possible).
- 2012, Ben Coles, The Rugby Pocket Bible:
  Incredibly dangerous, it can result in serious injury for the tackled player.
- 2017, Daren Worcester, Open Season: True Stories of the Maine Warden Service, page 189:
  The tackled suspect was young, no older than mid-twenties.
(comparable) That was addressed as a problem or challenge.
- 2018, Raquel Sosa Elizaga, Facing An Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology:
  At 8%, Income Inequality is the fourth most tackled research topic .
- 2019, Open Government, page 1217:
  As expected, transparency is the most tackled element by literature, especially in the field of access to information.
- 2020, Rudy B. Andeweg, Robert Elgie, The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives, page 439:
  One of the most tackled issues in cabinet decision-making literature is the extent to which prime ministers or other actors are prominent and able to lead the process .