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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Recent Examples of undertake
Two years earlier, the museum had undertaken to sell parts of its collection in the face of financial difficulties.
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Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Companies like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have undertaken efforts over the past year to downsize their human workforceas AI technology has developed.
—ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Eco effort Le Negresco has undertaken a concerted effort to become more sustainable.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Equity consultants instructed schools to undertake a program of healing, beginning with staff members of color, who bore the trauma inflicted by not only their school but also their country.
—Steven F. Wilson, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
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Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Companies like Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have undertaken efforts over the past year to downsize their human workforceas AI technology has developed.
—ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Eco effort Le Negresco has undertaken a concerted effort to become more sustainable.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Equity consultants instructed schools to undertake a program of healing, beginning with staff members of color, who bore the trauma inflicted by not only their school but also their country.
—Steven F. Wilson, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertake
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Six days after the death of Georg Baselitz, his longtime dealer Thaddeaus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week that the artist had already accepted would be his last.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
8 May 2026
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In February, Ricciardi accepted a plea bargain that required him to plead guilty to three felony counts of risk of injury to a minor and one misdemeanor count of breach of peace.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
8 May 2026
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Human operators continuously monitor the systems and can assume manual control when necessary.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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The aether, it was assumed, was the medium inherent to space that all objects, from comets to planets to stars, traveled through.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 May 2026
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They are prepped to run the ball more frequently, or at least run it more effectively, in hopes that this solves the stagnation — rather than personnel shouldering the load.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
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Starkey said in a Facebook post that homeowners still paying a mortgage have to shoulder the burden of paying the mortgage and property taxes.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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“Undertake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertake. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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