See take up with in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "I hear that John has taken up with Jane.",
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"ref": "1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “...And They Called It Puppy Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:",
"text": "Frank is an older, middle-class Englishman who has taken up with Johnny, the youngish, married son of his cleaning woman. It is unclear if money changes hands, but Frank is always ready to help out Johnny when he needs it.",
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"ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:",
"text": "For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.",
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"ref": "2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112:",
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"text": "For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.",
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"ref": "2001, Vincent Curcio, Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius, page 112:",
"text": "It seems, then, that automobiles and automobiling were on Walter Chrysler's mind for a long time before he took up with this legendary Locomobile",
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"To become interested in (something)."
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"text": "He took them up with him on his next trip to the mountains.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He took up painting with his wife.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He took up the overpayment with his supplier.",
"type": "example"
}
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