worked (at)

verb

Definition of worked (at)next
past tense of work (at)
as in carried out

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  1. carried out
  2. carried off
  3. accomplished
  4. brought about
  5. pulled off
  6. achieved
  7. performed
  8. brought off
Verb
  • The breach, first discovered in late September, was carried out by the cyber group ShinyHunters and targeted the FBI's job website, obtaining thousands of personnel records of its employees, according to the bureau.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The company’s security controls technically worked, as the agent faithfully carried out the fraudster’s instructions.
    — Caryn Seidman Becker, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of carried out
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  • Once he was secured in place, his UConn teammates ran over to the end zone to offer support as Brown was carried off.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Crab shells, whole and in pieces, turned up all over the school, to be swept away with the dust and fallen leaves and other litter, placed in a trash bag, and carried off behind the buildings to the incinerator.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of carried off
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  • Throughout the year, these frugal teams have accomplished quite a bit while matching up against the league’s high rollers.
    — Isaac Tellechea, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
  • This is accomplished through delivering an explosive warhead with low-density tungsten shrapnel and guidance by millimeter-wave radar for autonomous tracking and targeting.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of accomplished
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  • Yes, technology has brought about many changes in employment.
    — Ali Kashani, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
  • In Illinois, which claims the Monarch as the state insect, right of way commitments from Illinois energy utilities and transportation agencies have brought about a resurgence of milkweed, the monarch’s host plant.
    — Susan DeGrane, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of brought about
Verb
  • Eventually, the car exited the highway and pulled off into the nocturnal quiet of a random peninsula neighborhood.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The Dodgers are going to squander the grandest opportunity of all — the possibility of the three-peat, something only two other MLB franchises have pulled off, and none in the National League.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulled off
Verb
  • Moscow — By agreeing to open Russia’s taps and release hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel into a starving global market, the Kremlin has achieved something that raw military might on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine could never deliver.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Faith has achieved all of this in a town where the most boundary-pushing, visionary works and artists aren’t always the ones most celebrated on Music Row.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of achieved
Verb
  • The new version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been cut from a five-hour show performed across two parts to a single three-hour performance as it is performed on Broadway.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Drexler’s comedic sensibility was shaped, early on, by the vaudeville acts that performed in movie theatres in between screenings.
    — Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of performed
Verb
  • McKinley stands at about 20,310 feet, and the climber who was rescued was brought off the mountain from about 17,200 feet by Denali National Park and Preserve search and rescue personnel late Thursday afternoon.
    — Becky Bohrer, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Real Madrid star Arda Guler was caught disagreeing with head coach Alvaro Arbeloa, after being brought off in Wednesday's 4-2 Champions League loss to Benfica.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of brought off
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“Worked (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worked%20%28at%29. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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