piece of work
Example Sentences
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“For me that was a profound affirmation for a piece of work that could easily have been very harshly and very negatively judged.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
The ruling came as part of a wider piece of work related to online ads in the rail industry concerning "lowest" or "cheapest" price claims, with ruling against Abellio Greater Anglia and mytrainticket.co.uk also published.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
What a piece of work is man, the paragon of animals, whose triumphs include mobile-phone shopping and same-day delivery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
How do you strip that away and be like, I’ve got this piece of work that I want to do here?
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025
That from a third man, drawn by their voices—a skinny stubble-jawed piece of work with teeth stained red from sourleaf.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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