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Idioms and Phrases

Assume an official position or employment, as in The new chair takes office after the first of the year . [Mid-1800s]
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Trump said "gasoline prices are down by a lot" since he took office.

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Inflation, energy prices and mortgage rates have fallen since Trump took office, although unemployment has risen slightly, consumer sentiment has sagged and the stock market was plunged into turmoil by the tariffs.

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The Biden administration killed work requirements for Medicaid soon after it took office.

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Since Trump took office in January, hurling insults and threatening devastating tariffs and U.S. drone strikes, Mexico has been seized by a nationalistic fervor.

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After taking office in January, Trump redesignated the Houthis as a "Foreign Terrorist Organisation" - a status the Biden administration had removed due to what it said was the need to mitigate the country's humanitarian crisis.

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