to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities
you can take the white side this time, since I got to be white for our last chess game
action or behavior that is done in return to other action or behavior
what's your take on the announcement that the senior vice president is taking an early retirement?
something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
because there were so many winners of the jackpot, each person's take will be smaller than expected
a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play)
despite its contemporary setting, this take on King Lear isn't particularly novel or insightful
One theory holds that since shells frequently prevent tortoises from being eaten by predators, shelled species tend to live longer, and over time that may have helped to produce evolutionary pressures to age more slowly.
Brian Handwerk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Dec. 2024
Similarly, Salesforce regularly holds listening sessions to ensure leadership aligns with employee needs, fostering an empathetic and inclusive environment.
The system accommodates changes in gait pattern, step speed, weight bearing, and support level.
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Dec. 2024
Support Employee Needs Implementing flexible work arrangements, including telework and adjustable hours, accommodates employees’ personal needs and fosters better work-life balance.
The former calls for a counterfactual view of how testing works; the latter calls for political will and policy ideas not currently in evidence.
Peter Greene,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
The office also works with the Connecticut State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit, which investigates the cause and origin of fires and arson.
In good news for the baby-boom generation (born 1946 to 1964), now aged between 60 and 78, Perls believes that as many as 5 to 10% of them could live to 100 or older.
Joseph Epstein,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
Ball believes that Posen ultimately ended up with the perfect job for him.
The trick is that those outfits will be repurposed for next year’s pantomime season for one of the other pantos Harrison manages.
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
7 Dec. 2024
Ruth manages to solve that only for Remy and Mike to start fist fighting among the barrels and against the tanker, and then Gary (Meegwun Fairbrother) shows up just as Ruth gets a critical call about her husband’s medical condition.
Importantly, that $40,000 gap reflects only the difference in money each group receives from Medicare and does not count the payment gap from private insurers.
Peter Ubel,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
The local utility pays the community solar provider for the energy generated, and each subscriber receives a portion of the dollar value generated by their community solar subscription as a credit.
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