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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Closer to my heart is the expedition undertaken in 1937 by my great-uncle Dillon Ripley, an ornithologist who served as the head of the Smithsonian Institution for 20 years.
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Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026
Spacewalks are not a simple endeavor for NASA or its astronauts to undertake.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Interesting Engineering has widely reported on the megascale renewable energy projects that the Asian giant has undertaken in recent years.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 6 Jan. 2026
Whatever language is used to describe it — counter-narcotics, stabilization, transition — this was an act of war, undertaken without the constitutional mechanisms designed to restrain exactly this kind of unilateral executive action.
—Jon Duffy, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
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The restaurant is busy preparing for a big night of food and drinks, and is no longer accepting reservations due to high demand, instead going with a first-come-first-served policy.—
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Unlike conventional recycling systems, the process accepts mixed plastic waste.—
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Under such a rental structure, tenants are responsible for assuming their share of operating expenses, including property taxes, insurance and common area maintenance.—
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Aumann’s lawsuit says he was initially hired as a consultant to assist fundraising for the venture but was asked to assume the CEO title after a falling out with a previous leader.—
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Doncic had to shoulder the ball-handling load almost exclusively Wednesday without James and Reaves, who is sidelined until at least the end of the month because of a calf injury.—
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At 35, he’s being asked to shoulder one of the heftiest workloads of his career to pick up the slack for injured teammates Jalen Smith and Zach Collins.—
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“Undertake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertake. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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