All 7 Uses

engage
in
The Other Wes Moore
(Edited)

I engaged in extensive historical research and interviewed teachers and drug dealers, police officers and lawyers, to make sure I got the facts—and the feel—right.
p. xiv.1

engaged = was involved
The OASATAU was rallying AU's black students into engagement with the national, international, and campus issues roiling around them.
p. 9.2

engagement = involvement
A charismatic AU junior named Bill was the treasurer of OASATAU, and two months after they met early in the exciting whirlwind of her freshman year, Joy was engaged to marry him.
p. 9.4

engaged = in an agreement to marry
Despite the quick engagement, they waited two years to get married, by which time Joy was a junior and Bill a recent graduate looking for work.
p. 9.4 *

engagement = agreement to marry
He drank especially heavily when he needed drunk Kenneth to engage in conversations that sober Kenneth wouldn't dare.
p. 22.2

engage = participate (take part)
For some in my chalk, this was the first genuine, military activity they would engage in.
p. 134.1
I have fought battles I should not have engaged in, and walked away from causes that needed and deserved a champion.
p. 179.6 *

engaged = been involved

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