take something
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It may take something drastic to reverse their fortunes.
From Barron's
Shiffrin entered the race knowing that it was her last chance to take something away from these Games—or be shut out for a second consecutive Olympics.
So I this time wanted to just take something that happened very personal to me, this incident, and then tell the story, not only behind it, but what happened after and I was really proud of being able to just focus on that and make that into this special instead of just my observations on this or my thoughts on that.
From Los Angeles Times
She’ll take something more valuable.
From Los Angeles Times
He thinks it will take something less than four more years.
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