worked

variants or wrought
past tense of work
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as in performed
to produce a desired effect this headache remedy takes half an hour to work

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Recent Examples of worked Booker worked his whole life to get to last Thursday, his NFL debut. Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025 Both Cameron and Squires have worked on multiple Marvel projects in recent years. Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025 Founded by Keith and Brooke Desserich who lost their 5-year-old daughter Elena to brain cancer, The Cure Starts Now first worked with Graeter's in 2007 to develop an ice cream flavor in honor of the couple's daughter, called Elena’s Blueberry Pie ice cream. Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025 For approximately 25 years, Lee worked on international legal cases to combat injustice and promote human rights, achieving notable success in the high-level world of international courts. Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for worked
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worked
Verb
  • Johnson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday, nor did HUD officials.
    Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The two men then said Smollett paid them to stage the attack, and Smollett was charged with filing a false police report; the charges were later dropped after Smollett paid a fine and did community service.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That’s easily solved by cranking the brightness level to (or near) the maximum, but doing so will eat into your battery life, to some degree.
    Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The gig work humor and tech-bro satire appear to punch up at unfettered capitalism but actually punch down at the millions of workers whose problems won’t be solved by the end of the 98-minute running time.
    Beandrea July, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Watching or listening to a case unfold, and then feeling that relief when the truth comes out or justice is served.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Gospel music played on speakers, family members served chicken soup, strangers hugged each other, friends left carrying several plates stuffed with leftover food.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • People in the anxious group performed worse on intuitive decision-making than those in the neutral or positive groups.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Ryan Cabrera, another millennial favorite, also performed with the band that same night.
    Staff Author, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Isn’t the same belief what drove Laura to speak to them?
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Judge drove a full-count splitter from Casey Mize to right-center field, giving New York a 1-0 lead.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Testing in a model plant The team added the McG cycle genes to Arabidopsis thaliana, a small weed often used in plant research.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The dating technique used on the eggs, known more formally as carbonate uranium-lead, or U-Pb, dating, is a common process for determining the age of carbonate minerals — those containing calcium, iron, manganese and magnesium.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the California native struggled throughout the postseason and had just one hit and seven strikeouts across the first three World Series games.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • England had noticed Patri had struggled with the same issue against Switzerland.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vulnerabilities in those systems have been exploited in high-profile attacks across DeFi.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Jeffrey Breinholt, an architect of the material support statutes who spent three decades as a federal terrorism prosecutor, defends the laws as crucial to closing loopholes that were exploited by foreign militant groups and their domestic sympathizers.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Worked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worked. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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