as in to accept
to take to or upon oneself
undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own
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Recent Examples of undertake
Riefenstahl deftly undertakes the type of media autopsy usually reserved for the most fiendish of true crime cover-ups.
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Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Fairlead Strategies undertakes no obligation to maintain or update this material based on subsequent information and events or to provide you with any additional or supplemental information or any update to or correction of the information contained herein.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
The country is also the site of the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running internal armed conflict, and constitutionally requires all men between the ages of 18 and 24 to undertake some form of military service.
—Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
And, in fact, the court’s decision does not prevent the Administration from undertaking that process against Harvard at any point in the future.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Fairlead Strategies undertakes no obligation to maintain or update this material based on subsequent information and events or to provide you with any additional or supplemental information or any update to or correction of the information contained herein.
—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
The country is also the site of the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running internal armed conflict, and constitutionally requires all men between the ages of 18 and 24 to undertake some form of military service.
—Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
And, in fact, the court’s decision does not prevent the Administration from undertaking that process against Harvard at any point in the future.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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Nikki also shared a few candid sentiments upon accepting her award.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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Over the last month, three House Democrats have sworn off contributions from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee after accepting them in prior election cycles.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Do not assume the AI will necessarily seek to produce quality-level code.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Gemini tackled the problem by assuming that each reservoir had a priority value, which allowed the model to find the most efficient configuration using a dynamic programming algorithm.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
17 Sep. 2025
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The market winner may be the vendor who shoulders the most admin and management through its data and services backbone and manages to keep the human in human resources.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Asked who is shouldering the cost of tariffs, the average respondent says 31% is paid by the consumer, 29% by wholesalers and importers, and 23% by retailers.—
Steve Liesman,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Undertake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertake. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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