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as in initiative
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as in accepting
to take to or upon oneself
undertook the responsibility of raising the orphaned children as their own
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Recent Examples of undertaking
Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
Scraping together the funds was always going to be a massive undertaking.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
Attorney General William Tong is undertaking an investigation of JRK’s operations in Connecticut.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2026
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Noun
Attempting to marry these disparate reference points to a cohesive television show is an ambitious undertaking as is.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
Scraping together the funds was always going to be a massive undertaking.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
Around 50 professionals are currently enrolled in the Watchmaking Training Center, with 23 Rolex students undertaking the program in September 2024, and another 27 starting one year later.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
Attorney General William Tong is undertaking an investigation of JRK’s operations in Connecticut.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertaking
Noun
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But as baseball became a serious endeavor, drag racing turned into a spectator sport for Headrick.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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Yet, as in any endeavor, things can change.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Warriors, who lost three centers on Friday, are signing former Utah Jazz and Miami Heat 7-foot center Omer Yurtseven to a 10-day contract, according to multiple reports.—
Jon Becker,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026
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On February 14th, Anthropic was told that a failure to accept the government’s demands might result in contract cancellation.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The three-week experiment marks a turning point for the 10-year-old brand, which has built a loyal following through accessible prices and high-touch customer initiatives, including client trunk shows.—
Maliha Shoaib,
Vogue,
12 Mar. 2026
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In a further escalation of tensions with Kyiv, Hungary's parliament on Tuesday passed a resolution giving the government the green light to oppose Ukraine's path to joining the European Union and reject any initiatives to supply Ukraine with weapons or funding.—
JUSTIN SPIKE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Now that local leaders have cleared the way, CoreCivic can begin accepting detainees under its $60 million-a-year contract with ICE.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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The charter also embraced a mission as the neighborhood school — automatically accepting all who showed up at its doors.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The matchup between the two incumbent Republicans highlights a greater struggle of generational change that both parties are facing.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Mar. 2026
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For many in the middle and lower tiers, simply staying afloat now feels like a struggle.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The government wasn’t using autonomous weapons and claimed no mass-surveillance plans—but for a company to ask for those assurances in writing was to sign its own death warrant.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Regnitz reiterated, to a second assurance from Gunn.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Data centers have already been targeted, causing banking, payments, enterprise and consumer services to experience outages.—
Nur Hikmah Md Ali,
CNBC,
12 Mar. 2026
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Claude outperforms ChatGPT on virtually every enterprise benchmark that matters from legal reasoning and financial modeling to cybersecurity and legacy systems modernization.—
Mark Minevich,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
Verb
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From looks alone, you’d be forgiven for assuming the Grand America Hotel was nestled somewhere in the European Alps, as opposed to Salt Lake City’s Wasatch Rockies.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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But for a non-clairvoyant Bush II administration, assuming WMD under Saddam Hussein seemed the responsible thing.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Undertaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaking. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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