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work

[wurk] / wɜrk /








Usage

What are other ways to say work? Work is the general word for exertion of body or mind, and it may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's health.

Example Sentences

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By last fall, work on the Line all but halted as the PIF appeared to shelve the project, former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

These findings build on earlier work by Singh and Moffat published in Nature Medicine in 2024, which showed that cancer cells can take advantage of pathways normally used during brain development to spread.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Because it is built on open-source data and tech, the code is available to those who want to customise it to work with Chinese AI models.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

While federal officials declined to comment on the claim itself, some stressed that Phillips’ work record is otherwise standard, leaving observers to reconcile the unusual story with his professional background.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Their chief work, I learned from bits of conversation, was liaison with England and the Free Dutch forces fighting elsewhere on the continent.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom