- present participle of work.
working
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“What surprises people is how much work it is,” said Martin, who began offering tours 30 years ago, and still spends the winter months working his offshore lobster traps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Dozens of such lawsuits are working their way through courts across the country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Los Angeles County Department of the Medical Examiner is working on identifying the man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Platt said these barriers are not spoken about enough, saying that as a working class woman from Salford, she had also felt pressure to speak with a more neutral accent.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
I was working one of these all-steel Case Agitators across the thousand-mile fields, under endless sky.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
With its jokes about the inner workings of Hollywood agents at CAA and the trappings of fame and fortune, “Gail Daughtry” could easily feel like inside baseball.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Those tapes reveal the inner workings of a fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The workings of the Iranian leadership without Khamenei, who dominated it for nearly four decades, remain unclear.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
He’s part of a small group of exorcist influencers, Catholic priests who draw their own independent followings from the internet by promising to let the public in on the darkest workings of the devil.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
Its shell was so pale that she could see the mess of the inner workings.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
