embark
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A bipartisan congressional delegation is planning to embark the USS Lincoln once it returns home, Cao said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
After all the buildup, the Rams are ready to embark on their quest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
When one of Christopher’s cohorts is kidnapped and held for ransom, he and the former princess Anya Argen embark on a desperate quest to complete the kidnappers’ challenges and win their friend’s safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“New Trojans, just like Luke Skywalker, you too left your home to embark upon a hero’s journey of self-discovery and transformation,” Soni said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
One is long life expectancy, which in principle should give prospective inventors the years necessary to accumulate technical knowledge, as well as the patience and security to embark on long development programs yielding delayed rewards.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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As Radcliff embarks on his investing journey, he has a goal of graduating debt-free with $250,000 in assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
When any side embarks on the sort of root and branch revolution the Italian presided over this summer, it is inevitable there will be teething problems and time required for understandings and relationships to form.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Until it embarks on a sustained and meaningful cultural shift, working cooperatively with patients and families, many fear it will continue to fail mothers and babies.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
He now embarks on the perilous process of trying to build a reform coalition within the Fed-o-sphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
This includes railroad travel to Fall River, a distance of about fifty miles, where the traveler embarks on a great steamer and arrives in New York after a night on Long Island Sound.
From Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success by Horatio Alger
When UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham embarked on his trip to the United Nations in New York, he might not have been expecting a question about football fans drinking alcohol in grounds.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Back in 2002, it embarked on a project to house migrants at the Ministry of Defense site, spending £28 million on plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Lozano and his wife embarked to the Central American country for nine months, leaving La Opinión in the hands of their son and daughter, Jose Ignacio and Leticia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The “potential” of this Albanian island, called Sazan, is to become a luxury villa resort, and Trump has embarked upon this real estate project with her husband, Jared Kushner.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
The driver of the wagon rowed them out to a small fishing boat where John Bowley and his family embarked for Baltimore.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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Maddie and Avery were living in New York after college, in their 20s and embarking on careers in art and fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Now the RSS is embarking on an international tour designed to build recognition and credibility beyond India, and is facing resistance in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Samantha Weldon, manager at the Silver City resort, still encourages people to tarp up, especially if they are embarking on a multiday hike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
There were only arid steppes in sight when a small plane took off from an airport in southern Kazakhstan, embarking on a delicate mission: bringing rain for the scorched earth below.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Haven’t we mounted the scaffold, singing, as if embarking on a picnic, haven’t we, boys?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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