work at

phrasal verb

worked at; working at; works at

: to make an effort to do (something) better

She has been working (harder) at controlling her temper.

Examples of work at in a Sentence

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Yet Gill, Leitch and McCormick are encouraged by the progress the academy has made, including its decision to laud stunt work at the Oscars in March with a tribute that Gosling and Blunt introduced and that Leitch and McCormick produced. —Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 3 May 2024

Late last year, Termine was working at a mortgage-industry startup when the Financial Times ran a piece about Hunterbrook. —Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024

Employers including Kickstarter and Greenpeace Australia have permanently switched after participating in the group’s trials, and government officials from 16 countries have met with Whelehan and his team to discuss how to make the schedule work at scale. —Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 2 May 2024

Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. —Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024

Paul Bernard had joined the corporate development team two years prior, after holding a similar position at Nokia and working at investment bank Goldman Sachs, and saw an opportunity for the company to leverage its access and dealmaking chops in a new way. —Dana Mattioli, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2024

During high school, Ellison spent a pair of summers working at Oracle, but the tech universe held little interest for him. —Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024

Young Bowens, who lives in Tempe and works at Arizona State University, is the creator of a hydration vest made for taller, curvier and bigger people. —Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2024

Kailyn Castro, a 32-year-old who works at a tech company and lives in Brooklyn, started piling up streaming subscriptions during the pandemic. —John Koblin, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024