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going about

VERB

undertake

Synonyms

STRONGEST

set about

WEAK

approach be employed begin devote oneself to engage in get busy with occupy oneself with tackle work at

Example Sentences

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As the planet continues to bake, there are also increasingly fewer ways of going about staging a World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Researchers collected saliva samples from people in their villages between 2012 and 2015, while participants were going about daily life.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

There’s no absolute right or wrong way of going about this.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

It’s going about as well as you might expect: Students are losing hundreds of dollars on false rumors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

A fox had been going about its life here, and some humans had obliterated that life—wasn’t that enough of an outrage?

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker