WORKED IN Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

worked in

verb

past tense of work in

as in inserted

to put among or between others I think that we can work in one more interview in the afternoon lineup

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as in infiltrated

to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way managed to work in several references to baseball in his paper on the merits of teamwork

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Recent Examples of worked in Marc Sagal is a psychologist and performance consultant who has worked in sport, with Liverpool and Olympic athletes, as well as with businesses, including executives at McKinsey & Company, Hewlett Packard and JPMorgan. — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 The hotel assembled a mega watt team with backgrounds that read like a who’s who of travel, having worked in places like the Armani hotel in Dubai. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026 Some had worked in the country legally and others had been undocumented. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2026 The trio lived and worked in space for 245 days, circling Earth 3,920 times and traveling a total of nearly 104 million miles (167 million kilometers), according to NASA. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Up until recently, Calderon worked in the Mayor's Office of Social Equity & Innovation while Martinez works at Denver International Airport. — Brian Maass, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 His father worked in the steel industry and helped instill a strong work ethic in his children, Sullivan said. — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 One former staffer, who worked in the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said he was trapped outside when the shooting started. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026 Basiratmand worked in information technology for nearly 34 years and worked for a company that was a Microsoft partner. — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

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Ordonez alleges he was kidnapped by two people who threatened him, blindfolded him, had weapons and inserted a syringe into his neck.

— Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Reduce oven temperature to 350°F, and bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean with a few small crumbs attached, 17 to 19 minutes.

— Torie Cox, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2026

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State health officials suspect that the goats were exposed to rabies by a skunk that infiltrated their pen in late July.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 2 Sep. 2026
Texans have always seemed to relish their otherness, maybe even more so now that, in our age of globalization, so much sameness has infiltrated most American and international cities.

— Christine Lennon, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026

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In the 250 years since Newton introduced his famous laws of motion, physicists had come to believe their equations described a reality that was entirely independent of human action or interpretation.

— Adam Frank, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
The proposal ultimately stalled after Assembly leaders asked that it be introduced as a separate policy bill rather than as a trailer bill, Fine said.

— Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of introduced

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Hybrid work increased slightly while fully remote work shrank slightly; average remote hours slipped only from 27 to 26 hours over the measured period.

— Gleb Tsipursky, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
As the last of the September light slipped behind Central Park Wednesday evening, a small group of guests made their way into the Conservatory Garden, one of the park’s quieter gems and a place that remains unfamiliar even to many New Yorkers.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

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Three women and a man were wounded in a shooting early Sunday at Granite Regional Park in eastern Sacramento.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Russian attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions killed one person and wounded at least 10 others overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

— Samya Kullab, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

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