as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans v take up and practice as one's own v take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities v take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect v take into one's family v put into dramatic form v take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
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purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
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n a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead v clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing v purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
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a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully n
