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work

noun as in achievement

verb as in cultivate, form

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Example Sentences

So opening night arrives and we literally walk onstage, no idea if it’s going to work.

Those senators are likely to be familiar with how defying Trump worked out for Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who is now on his way to retirement.

From Salon

The hearing was told that Ms Robinson had contacted him outside her work hours without clinical justification, breaching professional boundaries.

From BBC

In the FDA's update, health officials said it was continuing to work with the food supplier and their customers.

From BBC

Ms Roberts, who worked at an indoor climbing centre in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, started a relationship with Mr Stockton in January 2023.

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When To Use

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.

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

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