working in

present participle of work in

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of working in 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 Caltrans said that can prevent construction crews from working in the affected area for several days. — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for working in
Verb
  • The resolution does not specify a schedule for inserting discrete one-hour corrections.
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
  • French design firm Gilles & Boissier helped design the 21 guestrooms, inserting green spaces filled with palm trees and other tropical flora to make each living space feel ultra-private.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
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
Verb
  • The sales company is introducing the title to buyers at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Any designer will tell you that the change needn’t be drastic; something as simple as upgrading your bed linens or introducing a new lamp can make all the difference.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • At 15, Mariana de Miguel was already sneaking into Mexico City’s nightlife with a fake ID, saving money to see the bands that shaped her imagination.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Imagine sneaking into a math library and combing through every mathematical text ever written.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But a few months later, at her 18-month appointment, the standard graph that plotted a child’s weight against their age showed her weight slipping off the curve.
    — Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
  • If one hook isn’t enough to keep the bag from slipping, place another one on the opposite side.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • After winding through an aspen grove, the trail gains close to 3,000 feet of elevation to reach the springs.
    — The Aspen Times, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The result is the winding-down workforce that took advantage of the postwar need for housing and infrastructure, and a workforce today that is trained to contribute to the service economy.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Working in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20in. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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