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Oct Healthcare Reform Trigger Unhappy Newsweek Retrieved July

Sentence 2009 Oct. 28, "Healthcare reform: Trigger Unhappy," Newsweek (retrieved 4 July 2011):

They think it's politically too much for the government to bite off right now.
Definition (
transitive
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,
idiomatic
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, sometimes followed by
on
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on#English
) To
accept
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accept
or
commit
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oneself to a
task
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/task
,
project
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/project
,
notion
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/notion
, or
responsibility
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/responsibility
, especially one which presents
challenges
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/challenge
.

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