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verb

present participle of work
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as in performing
to produce a desired effect this headache remedy takes half an hour to work

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Recent Examples of working
Adjective
As non-working royals, both Princess Beatrice and her sister, Princess Eugenie, maintain their own jobs. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Sep. 2025 The eldest child of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Beatrice and her younger sister, Princess Eugenie, are non-working royals with professional careers of their own. Meredith Kile, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
Former director of football Kevin Thelwell and Dan Purdy, two key drivers of the initial interest in Rohl, have since left the club and are working for Rangers in Scotland. Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025 He's Delivered the Opposite | Opinion Venezuela has a unified and organized opposition that has been working tirelessly to prepare for this moment. Kristina Foltz, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for working
Recent Examples of Synonyms for working
Adjective
  • Last year, though revenue and operating profit increased, non-operating red ink pushed the company into a full-year loss of NT$766 million, or $25 million.
    Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The adjusted net income decreased by 8% y-o-y to $3.9 billion in the first nine months of 2022 due to higher expenses as a % of revenues and lower non-operating income.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • That includes providing students with applied and work-based learning experiences in high school, as well as career exposure and exploration opportunities that begin in age-appropriate ways in middle school.
    Matt Gandal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • However, the study can only show an association and not a direct cause and effect, said Duval, who now directs applied research at CReATe Fertility Centre, a fertility clinic in Toronto.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Entrepreneurs who report higher well-being are more engaged in their businesses, thereby fueling their incentive to grow their ventures.
    Samantha Dewalt, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The majority of commenters agreed that the engaged couple were not in the wrong and that the in-laws were overreacting and being too sensitive.
    Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • Or those who know the difference between a smudging brush and a blending brush and how to use them when creating a smoky eye.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Improving efficiency in cooling systems reduces leaks, lowers energy use, and extends product life, creating both environmental and financial savings.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • Kepler notes that achieving a straight-knee gait with this hybrid setup required solving both mechanical and control challenges, especially when moving from simulation to physical robots.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But ask yourself—are these experiments solving top-priority problems?
    Rishit Lakhani, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • With more than 100,000 copies sold from her four EP releases between 2022 and 2024, Chaeyeon took on acting this summer as one of the lead roles in the web series Fresh Romance.
    Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The resulting unrolled network consists of multiple stages, each acting like a mini-network that mimics one iteration of optimization.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • There are, however, key technical challenges such as generating on-demand, indistinguishable single photons with high efficiency, and the probabilistic nature of photonic gates (the electronic elements in a computer performing logic operations).
    Gil Press, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And that receiver, now 33, is likewise performing as if age is just another number.
    Nate Atkins, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both offenses are moving with little resistance thus far.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Both injuries have significant implications for fantasy, as Jacory Croskey-Merritt is assured more touches in Washington moving forward; in Green Bay, Matthew Golden will have more chances to show his skills with Reed out in Week 3 and beyond.
    Jess Bryant, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025

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