| Sentence | 1988 Dec. 29, Steve Lohr, "Risk Inherited at Finnish Concern," New York Times (retrieved 4 July 2011): "And for the next couple of years, with Nokia having bitten off so much, Vuorilehto is the right guy for the task they face." |
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| Definition | ( transitive , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive idiomatic , sometimes followed by https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic on ) To https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on#English accept or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accept commit oneself to a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/commit task , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/task project , https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/project notion , or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/notion responsibility , especially one which presents https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/responsibility challenges .https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/challenge |
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