undergo
Usage
What is another way to say undergo?
Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation. Experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment.
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Writers who want the label have their works run through AI detection software and undergo an interview with an auditor, who also checks the book personally.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
He missed most of last year to undergo surgery and chemotherapy.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
I don’t mean to generalize, but as people age, it’s not unusual for them to undergo behavioral changes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
We didn’t want to usurp public resources to undergo a new inspection.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
“No, of course it isn’t necessary. But some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. I’d like to undergo something nobly. Don’t you see?”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Under these conditions, the bark undergoes a process called dry distillation, in which heat breaks down the material and releases substances that can be collected as tar.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
If a project could cause significant environmental harm that can’t easily be avoided, it undergoes a more detailed environmental review that examines its potential impacts and alternatives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The stakes are particularly high this time around as the company undergoes an artificial-intelligence transition with the upcoming rollout of its Apple Intelligence and agentic Siri.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Konsa's departure to Arsenal is the latest high-profile exit at Villa Park this summer as Emery's squad undergoes drastic change.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The skeletal system to which all those muscles are attached also undergoes tremendous strains and stresses.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Claire underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments to kill the malignant cells in his body, but the cancer returned again in 2017.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Duale said the patient boarded a flight on Saturday and underwent normal public screening at the main airport in Nairobi before he was transferred by a relative to a hospital in the city.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Concerns about his age resurfaced two years ago following an accident in the palace bathroom—he fell while cutting his nails and underwent emergency surgery to drain a brain bleed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
A Venezuelan man shot by an immigration agent in Texas underwent surgery Thursday to remove a bullet that had been lodged near his spine since September 20, his lawyers said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
They underwent the same tests and indignities that the original Mercury 7 went through, and more.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
Netanyahu told the media last week that the suspect had undergone "Islamist radical indoctrination".
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Upon arriving, the statues discover that Rome has undergone more than a few changes over the intervening centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
For the record, Guy is a physically fit woman in her 60s who has not undergone cosmetic surgery, whom many women would kill to look like.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
The network has already undergone two ownership changes, and considerable management turmoil, during the last decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Less than two weeks before departing for Nepal he had undergone minor throat surgery, leaving his trachea in an extremely sensitive condition.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Garrett, a two-time NFL defensive player of the year, has been on injured reserve since undergoing knee surgery after the opener.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Instead of undergoing surgery followed by three to six months of chemotherapy, participants received up to nine weeks of pembrolizumab before their bowel surgery.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
The case echoed other recent cases, including one where an OpenAI agent undergoing a security evaluation broke out of its testing environment and breached systems at AI platform Hugging Face.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The division has been carrying out mass layoffs and undergoing a wide-scale restructuring since Sharma's appointment.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
In 1965 I read about Penrose’s theorem that any body undergoing gravitational collapse must eventually form a singularity.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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