undertake
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The Cabinet Office said it would also undertake a wider review of workplace conflict and resolution across Whitehall within a year.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The group will undertake a new capital increase reserved for employees, "who will benefit from a 20 percent discount on the share price".
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
But last month, it agreed with local authorities to expand the facility’s footprint by 40%, or nearly 50 acres, for a new training center and to undertake other upgrades that will expand capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Modern European and American eels undertake extraordinary migrations, traveling thousands of kilometers from freshwater rivers to reproduce in the Sargasso Sea.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
“We had to think,” he later wrote, “about initiatives that we could undertake to show the enemy that we were still serious about our commitments in Vietnam.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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Certainly not in the dual doctor roles he undertakes here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Unitree’s humanoid robots can walk, run and climb and “can imitate & reinforce the learning drive” said the company, referring to algorithms that train the robot’s artificial intelligence as it undertakes tasks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The visit came as part of Royal Week in Scotland, where the royal family undertakes a series of engagements north of the border.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In the memorandum of understanding, the United States undertakes to "terminate all types of sanctions against" Iran, and to "make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets" of Iran.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“I can answer for every thing of that nature, sir, because it will be under Mrs. Weston’s care. Mrs. Weston undertakes to direct the whole.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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Most of the spending the Biden administration undertook was related to COVID, including financial assistance for households affected by the pandemic, which I don’t recall provoked much backlash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Boeing, which expects to commence 737 MAX 10 deliveries in 2027, said it undertook more than 2,000 hours of flight testing and supplied tens of thousands of pages of documentation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Under his military leadership, however, Ukrainian troops undertook chaotic withdrawals from the eastern cities of Avdiivka and Vuhledar, and from around Pokrovsk.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
He undertook peace-making efforts in conflict-torn African countries and made trips to Britain and Argentina in quick succession while those two countries were actually at war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
An industrial firm recently undertook to find out just how few.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Some responses to the wreckage can be undertaken through new leadership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
This sentence could refer to any number of actions undertaken by the department in recent months.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
The first 20 minutes of his speech largely on the renovation project undertaken by his administration.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Investors have at times been hesitant to support the spending spree that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has undertaken to transform Meta into an AI company, repeatedly pushing him to see near-term returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
A more drastic search than the previous one was undertaken, house by house, and this time they even took farm implements.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Bushby has consistently denied this is a spiritual undertaking; a journey of discovery.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Although the endnotes in “Medea” reveal a mountain of well-handled source material, this is not an academic undertaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The commenter had spent considerable time walking delivery workers through specialty aisles and negotiating alternatives, an especially frustrating undertaking when dietary restrictions were involved.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
"Reconstructing the lives of extinct life forms in a scientifically rigorous way, as opposed to just telling stories, is a precise and delicate undertaking," said Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, senior author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
On the other hand, ignoring the museum visitors was a prodigious undertaking.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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