WORKING IN Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

working in

verb

present participle of work in

as in inserting

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 infiltrating

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 working in These were actually comments I was frequently subjected to while still working in a hospital setting. — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 The sensational international rescue of the famously sentient creatures, replete with colossal cargo planes, huge crates and Shedd staffers working in the dead of night to transport and care for the whales, must have looked made for social media. — Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026 Was working in the feature-length format freeing or more challenging? — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026 Often referred to as the Nobel Prize of the Arts, the Praemium Imperiale recognizes exemplary achievements by artists around the world working in painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theater and film. — News Desk, Artforum, 8 Sep. 2026 This is your month, so don’t waste time overthinking when the cosmos is working in your favor. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 Adenot now has spent 19 hours and 42 minutes working in the vacuum of space. — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Vice president of player personnel Will McClay is in his 25th season working in the Dallas Cowboys’ personnel department. — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 However, in my experience working in AI development, these algorithms lack engineering reasoning and often fail to calculate long-term architectural dynamics. — Ihor Hamal, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for working in

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The process, called cured-in-place pipe lining, involves inserting a flexible liner into the old pipe, inflating it and hardening it in place.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Initially, county officials declined to open the list, citing the security threat of inserting a thumb drive of unknown origin into a government computer.

— Miles Parks, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of inserting

Verb

The show revolved around Crockett and Tubbs, two undercover detectives infiltrating South Florida’s criminal underworld.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Plus, even if a company isn’t intentionally using your data to train their models, one of their many agents could always go rogue, infiltrating company data and hoovering up individual users’ conversations with their chatbots.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of infiltrating

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The evening kicked off with Tarantino introducing the film and shared that had not seen the film at that theater.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Oct. 2026
The question is whether the new Atlas makes everyday family life easier without introducing a fresh collection of things to complain about.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of introducing

Verb

For a solid thirty minutes, the candidates defended their honor as the race’s most pro-Israel candidate — at times sneaking in jabs about their opponent.

— Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
But, the heartbreak would come sneaking around the bend over what might be the wildest 20 seconds of recent Big Ten memory, thanks to the insane final few minutes.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of sneaking

Verb

Its model has Nvidia’s share of the other hyperscalers’ spending slipping from 18% in 2026 to 16% in 2027.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026
In the meantime, the strangers who are slipping into her home through the box have become her part-time companions, starting with Jason and Amanda and continuing with others like Leighton and Blair.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of slipping

Verb

Its main street is lined with shops selling handblown glass and cozy knits, and colorful boats bob along its winding waterways.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
Along with that oh-so-sweet commercial success came rounds of discourse that callously dissected her racial identity, her relationship with her Blackness, and the winding history of genre in the context of American music.

— Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2026

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