| Sentence | 1967 July 28, "Actresses: Hayley at 21," Time: In between what she called the "goody-good" or "frilly-knickers" Hollywood films, she bit off some more demanding parts back home. |
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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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