Secure
Take in
Take in verb - To provide with living quarters or shelter.
Usage example: took in the stray dog
Both terms in one sentence
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Hard on Soft Science: Most of the First Hundred are openly contemptuous of psychology and the personality tests they had to take in order to secure their positions.
Source: Literature / Red Mars Trilogy - Jewish and Nerdy: Primo himself, who graduated with top honours in chemistry at the University of Turin, and who is able to secure a position in the camp laboratory due to his performance in a chemistry exam which he has to take in German, while half-starved and freezing.
Source: Literature / If This Is a Man
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