take on

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Recent Examples of take on None of it was true, but gossip takes on its own life. Jon Landau, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025 First Mills will test whether Democrats have changed their electability calculus by taking on a crowded primary field, including 40-year-old oysterman Graham Platner, who opposes Schumer as leader. Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025 Picture taken on August 6, 2017. Diana Olick, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025 Steelman took on the chief executive role at the beauty retailer in January 2025 after 11 years with the company, most recently as chief operating officer. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for take on
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take on
Verb
  • During her first week on the job, Weiss embarked on a listening tour of the network and met with top staff and producers, many of whom left the meetings with cautious optimism about the network’s future.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Those teams, who have met in the past two conference championship games, play next Saturday at Albertsons Stadium.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But American manufacturing looks very different from five decades ago, when millions of workers were employed to perform specific tasks along assembly lines.
    Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Companies that employ geopolitical foresight will be better equipped to navigate disruption and unlock growth opportunities.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To borrow a cliche, the M’s feel like the team of destiny.
    The Athletic MLB Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In the novel, Laura knocks on the door, hoping to borrow mascara, and the girl in question answers the door, even lending her the mascara.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Weiss now faces three major challenges.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But companies that don’t have an issue with undocumented workers are facing the friction of having employees pulled aside by ICE officials.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But as multiple advertising world sources note, Apple has hired its fair share of TV and streaming video veterans over the past couple of years, which, when combined with this newfound desire to cut deals to expand Apple TV’s reach, is certainly suggestive of broader ambitions.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025
  • As part of its hiring blitz, the agency has dropped age, training and education standards and has offered recruits signing bonuses as high as $50,000.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Johnstons adopted Alex on May 17, 2008.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Investors and regulators should adopt transparent, comparable metrics so capital rewards genuine impact, not greenwash.
    Olivier Wenden, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So the story continues to encounter somebody who our heroes think is bad, and then learn that our heroes would have done the same thing in that position.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Vought also encountered resistance inside the White House.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The companies that are surviving can scale from 50 to 300 people on a case-by-case basis, recruiting per project rather than permanently.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers set out to explore how this affects female runners by recruiting from running stores in Vancouver, Canada, 21 women across a range of ages, running experience,and training intensity.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025

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