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workday

[wurk-dey] / ˈwɜrkˌdeɪ /


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At the end of her workday, around 6 a.m.,

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Congratulations on making it through the first workday after a summer long weekend!

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

A recent paper in Science by Harvard University economist Amanda Pallais found that fully remote work sharply changes the social structure of the workday by removing opportunities to interact with other people.

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 2026

The midday celebration on Friday engulfed — and overwhelmed — one of the country’s largest cities on what was supposed to be a workday.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

Last year, the state legislature cut Dad’s workday from fourteen hours down to eight.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

In Viv Chen’s interview with Tory Burch, the designer compares her workdays to being “like an athlete where it’s about discipline and grit and endurance.”

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Maintaining a faster pace to tackle more tasks results in longer workdays.

From Slate Apr. 9, 2026

Participants were randomly assigned to take either solriamfetol or a placebo on workdays over a four-week period.

From Science Daily Apr. 1, 2026

Wigler noted that the promise of hitting goals fast with AI tempts tech start-up teams already prone to long workdays to lose track of time and stay on the job even deeper into the night.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

Even time off over holidays, which were more flexible but still considered workdays, was hard to come by, particularly as she was still classified as a temporary war service employee.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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