as in to fulfil
to carry through (as a process) to completion
carried out the task efficiently and cheerfully
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Recent Examples of carry out
The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has opened a review into whether special counsel Jack Smith’s team skirted any guidelines in carrying out their investigation into President-elect Trump.
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Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
The study carried out by Wicks and her team has been published in the journal, Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 18 Dec. 2024
Becoming a professor requires years and years of intense study, often carried out in isolation and poverty.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Some orders can't be carried out because the would-be deportee's home country won't take them or limits cooperation with ICE.
—Nick Miroff The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
The study carried out by Wicks and her team has been published in the journal, Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 18 Dec. 2024
Becoming a professor requires years and years of intense study, often carried out in isolation and poverty.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Some orders can't be carried out because the would-be deportee's home country won't take them or limits cooperation with ICE.
—Nick Miroff The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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Jason Momoa is about to fulfill one of his lifelong comic book dreams.Brian Welk, IndieWire, 30 Dec. 2024
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This is an issue because as gaming hardware improves in graphical potency, the requirements to fulfill that increase logarithmically.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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The pop superstar will perform on Christmas Day, December 25, marking a game-changing moment for both Queen Bey and the NFL.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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In a follow-up study, wine and coffee experts performed just as badly as novices when given non-wine and non-coffee smells, suggesting the Jahai’s enhanced abilities aren’t simply a result of practice in attending to aromas.Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Smith, now 74, was scheduled to be executed for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her teenage sons before it was called off.Landon Mion, Fox News, 28 Dec. 2024
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He was initially set to be executed in June 2020, but it was delayed because of the pandemic.CBS News, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2024
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The goal is to achieve a steady burn which will continuously produce electricity like a conventional power plant.New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Dec. 2024
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Your relationship and ability to communicate effectively with them, and the collective probability of achieving success, may very well depend on it.John Hall, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania developed a model based on network theory to do just that, describing their work in a February paper published in the journal Physical Review Research.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
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It’s also thought that an internal pick has the ability to hit the ground running, as an external hire would have a lot of learning to do.Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 30 Dec. 2024
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Johnson will charge just under $2.1 million to the Pacers salary ledger if his contract becomes fully guaranteed, and the Pacers have until early January to make that decision.Tony East, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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What's New Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine heads into the New Year after 12 months in which Moscow made territorial gains and Kyiv opened a new front in Russia's Kursk region.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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Teen Vogue reports that organizers set up banners on the ground in front of Johnson’s front door and another in the bathroom right across from it, and as they were quickly carried off under arrest, wrists in zip ties.Lex McMenamin, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a news release that the incident happened around 4:30 a.m. when three cars were carried off the road by floodwaters from Beaver Creek, a stream that begins in Douglas County and flows southwest through Taney County.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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The blue aventurine glass though which the sapphire moons hide when showing less than full is both innovative, highly technical to pull off, and visually chill.Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 28 Dec. 2024
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Grossberg has been pulled off interim committee assignments in Frankfort and temporarily suspended from the House Democratic Caucus.Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2024
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