work up

Example Sentences

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Doing that hard work up front is what makes every decision after it simple and fast.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

He can’t manage to work up the energy for a more convincing deflection.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2025

Then you work up the chutzpah to share it with other people.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

But Martin, working with pathologist Larry J. Stowell, was able to pinpoint the cause of that “rapid blight”—a fungus, Labyrinthula terrestris—and quickly work up a program to beat it back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

“You the one who work up in Big Mav’s store, ain’t you?”

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas