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went about

VERB

undertake

Synonyms

STRONGEST

set about

WEAK

approach be employed begin devote oneself to engage in get busy with occupy oneself with tackle work at

Example Sentences

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They went about it in a different way, though.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

The cricket was short and sharp, very tricky, heavily favoured to the bowlers, but today we went about it exactly the right way.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

The producers used a casting director to find these folks but Sheeran says none of them knew they’d be encountering him as they went about their business in Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

And when Gabriel suffered a concussion, it was suddenly Sanders’s offense—and it went about as horribly as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

Though it was summer and the leaves heavy on the trees, people went about the streets coughing as if it were the catarrh season.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson