Tackles

This TV show tackles issues of teenage pregnancy and homosexuality.

What he writes apart from his sentences is understandable, though full of errors and stylistic flaws. But when he tackles writing his example sentences, it's just incomprehensible bullshit.

George R. R. Martin gets the brutality of the Middle Ages right, but never tackles the mobs, riots, pogroms, and general mass psychology of the time.

My colleague Carlos is a problem solver who tackles challenges head-on.

She tackles problems head-on.

The fisherman made sure all of his tackles were in his tacklebox.

It will take a long time for a football player to set a new record for tackles.

That executive tackles problems right when they start.