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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
Return‑to‑office mandates and rising childcare costs are increasingly causing working mothers to leave the workforce. Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025 His clients weren’t young, co-working office types. Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
Wilkins began working with them in 2023. Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025 For years, Bloom was hyped as a Silicon Valley unicorn, but in 2012 the SEC charged an investment bank working with Bloom of using inflated numbers to mislead investors. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 16 Oct. 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
  • The 2025 Nobel Prize for physics recognizes original investigations in the intersection of basic and applied sciences.
    Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Moving beyond the theory of the market, those skilled in applied finance understand how to make practical decisions in financial spaces.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Employees stay engaged longer, teams navigate setbacks smoothly and leaders make stronger decisions under pressure.
    Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The couple became engaged in August.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Bethany House, the Cincinnati area's largest family shelter, has been full since 2018, creating more than a month's long wait for some families.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • L3Harris revealed that the communications suite will provide interoperability with the United States, NATO and coalition partners, creating a networked battlespace with fifth-generation aircraft and beyond.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Those experiences gave him a respect for precision, process, and real-world problem solving.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In Season 1, Gillory was a janitor at the LAPD but become a full-time consultant after solving a murder case and impressing everyone with her IQ of 160.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Jodi Benson sang her daughter Delaney Benson's praises for following in her acting career footsteps while also carving out a name for herself at the same time.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Her intervention comes amid concerns in the acting community about the creation of Norwood and how avatars like her could ultimately replace lower profile performers.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • Although the Peacock adaptation didn't show a full shot of Gacy in his clown costume, the series included scenes of him talking about his passion for dressing up as a clown and publicly performing as one.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The clip, directed by Adrian Rickard Ennis, splices together footage of Freeman performing and New Mexico’s annual Cerrillos Burro race.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Also on Sunday, Sturm scratched second line center Casey Mittelstadt, moving Pavel Zacha to center and re-inserting Khusnutdinov back into the lineup and onto the second line.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That said, there was energy for the gap scheme to be the default moving forward.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Working.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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