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WORK IN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add by mixing or blending on or attaching

Example:

In his speech, the presidential candidate worked in a lot of learned words

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "work in" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

But will it work in people?

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

This blocks the cell’s ability to use the RNA to make a protein or work in other ways.

(Antisense oligonucleotide therapy, NCI Dictionary)

"My research was in a large part inspired by Vera Rubin's work in 1980 on the size of this galaxy," said Holwerda.

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

It is a form of the anticancer drug cytarabine that may work in patients with leukemia that is resistant to cytarabine.

(CP-4055, NCI Dictionary)

Proteins do most of the work in cells.

(Genetic Disorders, NIH: National Library of Medicine)

To work in a health occupation, you often must have special training.

(Health Occupations, Bureau of Labor Statistics)

“And yet, my fair lord,” said Edricson, “there has, from what I hear, been much of such devil's work in France.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Finally I set to work in earnest upon the trunk, taking turn and turn with Lord John.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A term used to describe how well the lungs work in helping a person breathe.

(Lung function, NCI Dictionary)

Clinical trials are research studies that test how well new medical approaches work in people.

(Clinical Trials, NIH: National Institutes of Health)