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"As soon as the minister was made aware of these issues, she instructed the director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service to undertake an urgent investigation into these matters."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Rivas wanted reassurance that district staff had made sure that these projects are the right ones to undertake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

If a new queen survives until her first brood emerges as adult workers, though, then the odds are in her favour as she no longer needs to undertake risky foraging.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Smith said being private will make it easier to undertake the transformation they are announcing today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“It requires indeed some courage to undertake a labor of such far-reaching extent,” Mendel would write later.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Unitree’s humanoid robots can walk, run and climb and “can imitate & reinforce the learning drive” said the company, referring to algorithms that train the robot’s artificial intelligence as it undertakes tasks.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Point 11 of the MoU detailed that the "United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

In the memorandum of understanding, the United States undertakes to "terminate all types of sanctions against" Iran, and to "make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets" of Iran.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

The United States undertakes to issue all necessary permits and licenses on this basis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

If Miss Taylor undertakes to wrap Miss Emma up, you need not have any fears, sir.’

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Concern stems from recent reports that Anthropic blocked use of AI tools to develop bioweapons and that swarms of AI bots autonomously undertook massive hacking operations.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

During Kaur’s tenure as chief financial officer, CEO Elhedery undertook a sweeping overhaul of the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

"We undertook this study to determine if vanillin, a flavor chemical often used in e-cigarettes at high concentrations, could adversely affect the development of young embryos in humans."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

New leadership will bring a change in strategic direction at the group in terms of how a new chairman approaches the ambitious expansion Chandrasekharan undertook, say experts.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

That was how they undertook the crossing of the mountains.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

That revision was undertaken with analytical rigor: The process took two years, involved 35 agencies, incorporated extensive new and existing research, and elicited over 20,000 comments.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Times’ reporting on restraining orders was undertaken as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund and engagement initiative.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"The charitable work of the duke and duchess is a personal matter for them both and undertaken in their private capacity. In short, their position is akin to private citizens with commercial and charitable interests."

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

The owner of a nearby shop told news agency ANI that it was under a 100-year lease and that the leaseholder had undertaken excavation work in the basement to increase their income.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Sometimes I play with the fantasy that I am a princess who, in penance for some tiny transgression, has undertaken to feed each of her subjects by hand.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Enter Reinsve and Stan, an ideal pair of leads capable of providing the understated, baseline emotion that Mungiu requires to pull off an undertaking as tricky as “Fjord.”

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

For one thing, acquiring the myriad permits needed from federal, state and local governments would be a major undertaking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Moustapha told the BBC that his wife had travelled to Egypt to look after her elderly, sick mother, who had been undertaking 18-hour round-trips to take food to el-Shazly's two brothers in detention.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The Takaichi administration is undertaking a major update of the national defence strategy this year in the face of China's expanding military ambitions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

I ain’t sure who or what dug out such a large space, but it must’ve been a pretty impressive undertaking.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland