take something
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“Just to watch her take something that was so difficult and pour herself into everything that went into last year was something I’ll never forget,” coach Lindsay Gottlieb said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
"Perhaps the hardest task in music is to take something already exceptional and to help it grow further," he said.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
"We're focusing on children again and we take something away from children that actually is so, so important to them in their lives at the moment," he said.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
“To me, he’s the hero of that movie, not the villain, because he was trying to take something that was always smoke and mirrors and turn it into something magical and real,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Then he said, “Listen. I want you to take something in your rucksack for me, in case we can’t come back here. It’s only letters. You can read them if you want.”
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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