as in assumes
to take to or upon oneself
undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own
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Recent Examples of undertakes
For now, Jimmy Choo remains under the Capri umbrella, as the company also undertakes to reinvigorate its core Michael Kors brand.
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Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Next, traceback either leverages the STIR/SHAKEN attestation framework, which immediately identifies the source network, or undertakes queries at each upstream CSP in the call's transmission chain until the originating CSP and its customer are identified.
—Peter Ford, Forbes.com, 15 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, 15 Sep. 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called a meeting on Thursday to discuss efforts to avoid harming the hostages still held in Gaza when the Israeli military undertakes its ground operation in the coming days.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
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
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
Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Next, traceback either leverages the STIR/SHAKEN attestation framework, which immediately identifies the source network, or undertakes queries at each upstream CSP in the call's transmission chain until the originating CSP and its customer are identified.
—Peter Ford, Forbes.com, 15 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, 15 Sep. 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called a meeting on Thursday to discuss efforts to avoid harming the hostages still held in Gaza when the Israeli military undertakes its ground operation in the coming days.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertakes
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One assumes this exhibit was planned way in advance of that all-consuming conservative wave that no curator can now get out of their mind.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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At first Freud assumes that the scene at the lake might be the site of the psychic trauma.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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If the militant group accepts it, the plan called for Hamas to lay down its arms and renounce governance in the Strip.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
29 Sep. 2025
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Completeness is the chance that Arthur accepts a valid proof.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The market winner may be the vendor who shoulders the most admin and management through its data and services backbone and manages to keep the human in human resources.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Undertakes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertakes. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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