be taken

Example Sentences

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Several longstanding satellite companies have found merger partners, including Globalstar, which in April agreed to be taken over by Amazon.com.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

The advance in Comcast stock Monday, however, needs to be taken in the context of the stock’s poor showing this year—and over the past five and 10 years.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

No identification was made, and by mid-April Esme was told no further action could be taken.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

“It is just heartbreaking to see these totally innocent creatures, in various states of decomposition, be taken out and put on a tarp and put in the black plastic garbage bag for evidence,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

In the newspaper L’Intransigeant, the modernist poet Guillaume Apollinaire praised the portrait: “The Mona Lisa was so beautiful that her perfection has come to be taken for granted.”

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day