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View definitions for embarked upon

embarked upon

adjective as in undertaken

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This summer Dick Cheney, his wife Lynne and daughter Liz have embarked upon a sustained campaign of reputation rehabilitation.

But for people who care about gay rights, it looks like the court just embarked upon one perilous journey.

The tepid policy experiments that are occasionally embarked upon they sabotage at the very first hint of inflation.

Counterinsurgency of the sort the U.S. has embarked upon in Afghanistan needs three things in abundance: troops, money, and time.

By intervening in a civil war, he worries, the U.N. has embarked upon a policy of regime change in Libya.

He embarked upon a clear and technical explanation, but when he had said a very few words, she stopped him.

But as the king forbade him to leave court, he secretly embarked upon a vessel he fitted out himself, and crossed the Atlantic.

After which it embarked upon a long-impending struggle with the persistently imperialist House of Lords.

To play any classroom game in this spirit is to be dead weight for every one else embarked upon the same adventure.

The talk hung for a time, and then my uncle embarked upon a dissertation upon Wimblehurst.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to embarked upon, such as: attempted, begun, initiated, launched, started, and tackled.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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