Words similar to taken

Example sentences for: taken

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It has been suggested that calculation of the mean of up to six measurements each taken over 30 s will reduce the error, but clearly this is time consuming [ 22].
A three-second period before getting in the shower is worth far less than three seconds taken from the middle of my daughter's wedding.
And it said that the heads of government who appointed them "have taken on a grave responsibility by making themselves accomplices of their imbecilic 'smart bombs,' thus delegitimizing the noble aims with which this intervention was undertaken."
How many drug-addled male rock stars with children have been taken to task for the same behavior?
I will not deny that it has been shown that as much as 70 or 80 percent of a tax "incentive" often goes to pay for activity that would have taken place anyway.