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How to use the word taking in a Sentence?

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The government of Ethiopia is taking the first steps by publicly releasing a detailed green paper with transitional justice options based upon best practice and building upon the experiences of other states emerging from periods of mass violence.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
13 hours ago

We don’t really have a plan. We’re just taking it day by day, but we have a feeling it’s going to be months before even insurance can cover any damages.

Ruth Ruiz

Found on CNN
1 day ago

Hitting distances at the elite level of the game have consistently increased over the past 20, 40, and 60 years. It’s been two decades since we last revisited our testing standards for ball distances, predictable, continued increases will become a significant issue for the next generation if not addressed soon. We are taking the next steps in this process, guided first and foremost by doing what’s right by the entire game.

Mike Whan

Found on CNN
2 days ago

We are concerned that losing educator diversity would be taking a large step backward in student achievement, we know that when students of color have educators who look like them, educators who share their same cultural backgrounds, if not their linguistic backgrounds, we know that those students are more likely … to have better discipline records, higher attendance records.

Armando Orduña

Found on CNN
3 days ago

I’ve always appreciated cultural differences. My family’s from Taiwan, I grew up in the US and was born there, but was always part of two cultures, and so I remember just taking a lot of it in, trying to figure out the codes of conduct.

Bolivia Augustin and Michelle

Found on CNN
4 days ago

For too many private sector actors it’s always going to be easier to point the finger at the Fed rather than taking a good long, hard look in the mirror, too many opt for short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability despite the clear risks associated with a borrow short, lend long strategy.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
4 days ago

We do n’t really have a plan. We’re just taking it day by day. But we have a feeling it’s going to be months before even insurance can cover any damages.

Another Pajaro resident

Found on CNN
6 days ago

As the capabilities of narrow-body airplanes grow, they are taking on long-haul missions – flying increasingly further, the result is an inherent desire for increased comfort and features equivalent to wide-body airplanes.

Stephanie Faulk

Found on CNN
6 days ago

We’re very excited that Evan Vucci/AP Biden administration is taking these steps forward. They represent a very positive step in the right direction.

Liz Hitchcock

Found on CNN
6 days ago

If Mary – and Henry – can prove that an ASO works in an AHC patient, they will be providing a tremendous service to the entire community, mary is taking on an incredible burden of risk, and much of the burden of cost, for Henry but also on behalf of the other patients in our community.

Nina Frost

Found on CNN
7 days ago

This is about building up our capacity. And when you talk about the issue of manufacturing submarines in Australia, that’s an absolute priority for us. That will be seen as part of the announcement, briefings are taking place, as appropriate, with other countries.

Anthony Albanese

Found on CNN
8 days ago

Everyone on Wall Street knew that the Fed’s rate-hiking campaign would eventually break something, and right now that is taking down small banks.

Ed Moya

Found on CNN
9 days ago

These medicines are most effective if you start taking them as soon as possible after the rash appears.

The CDC

Found on CNN
10 days ago

There have been supply chain pressures, and there have been commodity cost increases. But [companies] have, I think, taken price increases that exceed that, they are, to me, absolutely profit taking.

Mark Lang

Found on CNN
12 days ago

They’ve come together to realize that (Chinese aggression) can’t continue as is, so every country is taking steps, both within an alliance (and) also within their own self-interest of creating a comprehensive coalition of deterrence. That’s what’s going on.

Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN
12 days ago

You look at India, you look at the Philippines, you look at Australia, you look at the United States, Canada or Japan. They (China) have had in just the last three months a military or some type of confrontation with every country. And then they’re shocked that countries are taking their own steps for deterrence to protect themselves. What did they think they were going to do?

Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN
12 days ago

People think taking a deep breath is the way to ease stress, but it turns out that exhaling slowly is a better way to calm yourself.

David Spiegel

Found on CNN
13 days ago

For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings.

Liz Dunning

Found on CNN
14 days ago

Just because you were given this diagnosis, doesn’t mean that your life, your career, the future that you see for yourself is over, but taking a second opinion from an expert who knows what they’re doing and is comfortable with shared decision-making is the next step.

Matthew Martinez

Found on CNN
14 days ago

We’re doing everything we can this year, and there’s nothing else you can do, after that, you just start taking more crops away, which is income.

Alaska Schreiner

Found on CNN
16 days ago

He is being looked at very closely now, we have seen a number of the Senate staffers say, ‘We are taking this very seriously. This is something that I will personally speak to the senator about.’ We take that as very encouraging language.

Chessy Prout

Found on CNN
17 days ago

Stop taking advice from people who aren’t living the life you want.

The Blonde Jon

added by TheBlondeJon
19 days ago

We are looking at all the ways of addressing efficiency and performance, this week we are taking action with a relatively small number of global executives and classified employees following our most recent performance calibration. They will be departing the company starting from today.

Arden Hoffman

Found on CNN
19 days ago

The original sin was relying on President Trump’s Title 42 instead of taking the early hits to get out of it and build legal pathways to relieve pressure off the border.

Alida Garcia

Found on CNN
19 days ago

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    something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else
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