working over

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Doxorubicin, a commonly used drug for TNBC, often stops working over time as tumors adapt.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026

“People will naturally continue working over the holiday period but more at their own speed as they have lots of family commitments to juggle,” Cadwallader said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Healey said more than 200 military planners from the coalition had been working over the last few months "doing detailed planning for the point of a ceasefire".

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

“There’s been an increase in the number of people working over the age of 65 and even into their 70s,” said Nari Rhee, director of the Retirement Security Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2024

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan