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When the war broke out, Unesco and Sudanese museum authorities were undertaking multimillion-dollar repairs at more than a dozen museums and cultural centers across the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

She said the pair were undertaking the exercise programmes needed to stay healthy in the weightless environment.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2024

To get people to stop and listen, they’d offer free bars of soap — a metaphor for the scrubbing that they were undertaking.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2024

During all of that, we were undertaking a kitchen renovation.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

Meanwhile, throughout the 1950s oceanographers were undertaking more and more sophisticated surveys of the ocean floors.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson