take up with
Example Sentences
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“As chairman, he would be able to lead the efforts, set the agenda the committee would take up with next year being the farm bill,” said Jarrod Yates, director of public affairs and governmental relations for the Arkansas Farm Bureau.
From Seattle Times
Meanwhile, William has dumped his longtime girlfriend to take up with another — a messy situation.
From Washington Post
The muscleman revealed that he’s divorced Margo so he could take up with two new plastic playmates, Luna and Lola, the Daily Star reported.
From Fox News
In 1845 she would still be writing to Robert Browning, “As for me, I have done most of my talking by the post of late years – as people shut up in dungeons, take up with scrawling mottos on the walls.”
From The Guardian
He also suggested that it didn’t deserve to be part of Social Security at all, a point he was welcome to take up with Congress, which enacted it in 1956.
From Los Angeles Times
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