Return
Return verb - To bring, send, or put back to a former or proper place.
Take up
Take up verb - To move from a lower to a higher place or position.
Both terms in one sentence
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Considering his role as the leader, the group was looking rough until a certain individual decided to return and take up his sword for a month until his return.
Source: Wrestling / Fortune -
Brock Rumlow also survives one of the Helicarrier explosions, but has been left horribly disfigured through burns, leaving him open to return and take up his identity as Crossbones from the comics.
- Although in the end the kids were able to convince the said celebrities to take up farming, so Sunny and the old teachers can return.
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