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vb. (en-third-person singulartake on)
Usage examples of "takes on".
It isn't until later that she takes on the appearance of a dead body that has spent too much time underwater.
There, entombed in marble, Prince Albert lies in the moonlight, hands folded, at rest, on his face a slight grave smile which, in this lighting, takes on an unbearably sinister aspect.
Well, I shall make one more attempt, but if she takes on Nareth's airs and graces&.
When engineers don't know what's happening, their vocabulary takes on the richness of physicians discussing a hopeless case.
Yet the Hadza encampment eventually takes on the best hunter's name.
Travis gets to hang out in the Chicago art scene with hilarious results, and takes on the project of unblocking Heidi, a painter with artistic and sexual hangups.
But for SFWA members, he has a special grace-he Is the fellow who takes on the hard jobs.