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work

[wurk] / wɜrk /








Usage

What are other ways to say work? Work is the general word for exertion of body or mind, and it may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's health.

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One offshore facility for belugas is being created in Iceland, but in July organisers determined that more work was needed, and delayed the introduction of two whales until next summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

In my work with families, I focus on three behaviors:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The writer-director also took to social media Thursday to express his gratitude and to confirm he would be continuing his work on “The Batman 2.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"She seemed to work a lot," commented another neighbor, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

I turned the oval over in my hands, looking at the work she’d already done, each stitch tiny and regular on the back, but the colors on the front were wild and fluid.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Evans, watching the exchange, regards his wife’s difficulty following the joke as further evidence that her mind simply works differently from everyone else’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

In addition to supercars, a three-row SUV is in the works that would be more expensive than the company’s current Cayenne model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

To find the solution, Church, who works at US cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, needed to learn "very little" about code-breaking techniques or the historical period.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Inference is what happens when a trained AI model answers a question or works through a task.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

We create entire backstories, including betrayals, missing parents—the works.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

“No one slacked off at all. Everyone just came in and worked hard. They just played a lot better than us. They were hitting on everything. It wasn’t our year.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

That’s why we worked with our partners to reach states and regions where cases were likely to be heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Standing on ladders, the Palestinian farmers worked quickly, sending streams of olives onto the plastic sheets laid out under the trees.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

One of us worked side-by-side with Fed officials for a number of years on ways to augment the dot plot.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The moonlight off the snow in the cold air was so bright and flat white you could have read a book, and the dogs worked wonderfully in the cold.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

“Kevin Sun I.” captures the flow of his band in performance yet achieves its most memorable aspects through carefully wrought post-production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Alice’s humanity is defined by her total rejection of the manufactured digital world and the havoc its creators wrought.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

He largely espouses esoteric prognostications of how 8 billion human deaths could be wrought by hostile machines, and even though many that admit this outcome is unlikely, it takes up a lot of their attention.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

Moore stepped on the gas and crashed through a wrought iron fence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

His fury was wrought to the highest: he must yield to it for a moment, whatever followed; he crossed the floor and seized my arm and grasped my waist.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Driverless 18-wheelers can’t back up without a human driver, though the companies say they’re working on adding that feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Mejia demanded the information, much of which was also requested by The Times, as required in the 2021 contract that defines the working relationship between LA28 and the host city of the 2028 games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Which of those three possibilities—the story flopping, working, or backfiring—emerges is an important barometer of where we stand in 2026, and whether the truth still has any purchase in our modern era.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Both of them have latterly turned to personal projects, working with their wives -- film editor Tricia Cooke and actress Frances McDormand -- on movies such as "Honey Don't" and "The Tragedy of Macbeth".

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Those working in the sleeping rooms received far less supervision than those at the tables, and Betsie found herself with most of the day in which to minister to those around her.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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