field work
Example Sentences
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UN staff have been largely unable to carry out field work and UN agencies are having difficulty retrieving aid shipments from Havana's airports.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
I’m a cultural anthropologist, and what we do is field work.
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2025
In an October hearing, Diane Rafferty of the auditing firm Alvarez & Marsal, told the court that preliminary field work uncovered “inconsistencies in services offered due to a lack of clear standards.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
“He was quite up himself… so he wasn't a particularly popular person, but he was reasonably good at his job,” says John Pomeroy, who organised research field work for Crocodylus Park.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
They pulled weeds and worked in trash gangs now, but one day the field work would make them as big as the men grappling and pinning each other to the grass.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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