undertakes

present tense third-person singular of undertake

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of undertakes Riefenstahl deftly undertakes the type of media autopsy usually reserved for the most fiendish of true crime cover-ups. Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025 Fairlead Strategies undertakes no obligation to maintain or update this material based on subsequent information and events or to provide you with any additional or supplemental information or any update to or correction of the information contained herein. Katie Stockton, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025 Yvonee grounds Thompson throughout Aronofsky’s glorious character study on a small town kid who must grapple with a brutal series of events that undertakes his sensibilities. Malik Peay, Essence, 27 Aug. 2025 As Christian undertakes the next leg of his training, his siblings are also gearing up for a new school year. Janine Henni, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025 The component undertakes its internal mathematical and computational effort and then goes out of its way to purposely produce tokens so that the rest of the assembly line functions based on language. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 These numbers are only remotely possible if the government undertakes a relatively indiscriminate, neighborhood-by-neighborhood campaign of detentions, going even beyond the total number of undocumented people in the United States. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024 The artist’s frustration of optical and acoustic access to a message—the functional goal of stadium architecture—undertakes a critical approach to representation not as a way of making something visually discernible but rather as a cultural process of meaning-making. Ellen Y. Tani, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertakes
Verb
  • Here, Jake Gyllenhaal assumes the iconic role of Dalton — originally played by Patrick Swayze in 1989 — a former UFC fighter who takes a bouncer gig at Florida's rowdy Double Deuce joint.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Despite having what one assumes is the pick of the litter with A-list celebrities willing to lend their insights on McCartney, Wings and the Beatles, Neville wisely chooses to keep the outside voices to a minimum.
    Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • State a belief that goes against what everyone accepts as true.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Today, the plant rents dumpsters out to customers and accepts precious metals, electronics, materials that contain iron and other waste.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The United States shoulders the lion’s share of the global biopharmaceutical research and development tab in 2021—some 55% of the $276 billion spent in 2021.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

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“Undertakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertakes. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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