worked up
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, I worked up my courage and said, “Hi, my name is Nick. I love your hat. I have one just like it!”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The group worked up a policy to try to address a homelessness crisis that seemed to be spiraling out of control in Albuquerque, but also in cities all over the country.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
Whatever remarks have been exchanged, they've clearly worked up until now.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
Yet something about Sunday’s ceremony made it hard to get too worked up about all the historicizing.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
We talked about how Ivan DeVore, the postmaster, had finally worked up the nerve to ask Velma T. to the upcoming Second Annual Homecoming Celebration, being held eighteen years after the first one.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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