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work

noun as in achievement

verb as in cultivate, form

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I worked very loyally for him to do everything I could for him.

Both are recovering well after their surgeries and are already back to work.

The NBCU spokesperson said the company would work with each advertiser to decide how the data would be used and managed.

From Digiday

It works with the full-sized Smart Keyboard and the new Logitech keyboards.

At Fortune, we’ve worked to make business better since our founding 90 years ago.

From Fortune

If one tactic doesn’t work, flag it, drop it and try something different.

From Digiday

He oversees the business side of Apple’s video efforts and leads work on Apple News, Apple Books, iCloud and the company’s advertising platforms.

From Fortune

Everyone could work however they wanted to maximize what they were bringing to the company.

“You’re just a cog and we can get a new one,” is how one former employee described working at Kirkhill, a Transdigm company in Orange County, California.

If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?

“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

To make it work almost everything else about these shows has to seem factual which is why many look like a weird Celebrity Sims.

But as you get older, I find I get more tunes and I have to work harder at the words.

I always wanted to have a career like his—except for the stopping work thing.

Being there teaches you to think quickly, edit yourself, and not get too precious about your own work.

I got to work on all of it—and Epstein kept close tabs on me.

Is it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work?

Schedules work out and we just have them come out to Portland.

In these regions, men are now doing between 30 and 45 percent of the care work.

These people that work for the BOP are not rocket scientists.

Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

In October, he traveled to Denver with Fry to support his work with LGBT rights organization The Matthew Sheppard Foundation.

The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.

Mr. Bachner said it had been hard to introduce his work ethic and share his vision with the locals and his team.

Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.

What do you think is the best fantasy work that has not been adapted that should?

Why would the CIA work to overthrow the Ukrainian government?

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

With him one is at high pressure all the time, and I have gained a good many more ideas from him than I can work up in a hurry.

In fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.

The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.

Entrez donc, 'tis the work of one of your compatriots; and here, though a heretic, you may consider yourself on English ground.

Hence arise factions, dissensions, and loss to their religious interests and work; and these intruders seek to rule the others.

The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.

How is it that one instant of time should work those effects in the human mind which are so lasting in their results!

She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.

In this little room the galleries had been designed; the windows had looked upon the commencement of the great work.

Kum Kale has been a brilliant bit of work, though I fear we have lost nearly a quarter of our effectives.

One whist table only is at work; General Pepper and three old hands of the same kidney are hard at it.

A little shepherdess is guiding them, as anxious to get them in as they are to enter, for this means the end of her day's work.

From the very first of the war their work was to help exterminate the guerrilla bands which infested the State.

She has embodied in her work a modern comprehension of old legends.

The other is the new theory: that the Bible is the work of many men whom God had inspired to speak or write the truth.

After the death of Édouard Manet, she devoted herself to building up an appreciation of his work in the public mind.

How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?

The work is in two volumes, and my Baronite says would have been more than twice as good had it been in one.

A world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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