work at

phrasal verb

worked at; working at; works at

: to make an effort to do (something) better

She has been working (harder) at controlling her temper.

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An employee at TrueCar told Reuters that Mangione worked at the car-buying website as a data engineer from 2022 to late 2023. —

Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024 His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain, according to an obituary of his father. —

Amy Julia Harris, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024 Take for example their work at Kidplayhouse Productions; a not-for-profit theater school the couple founded and sustained for nearly a decade on the Acadian Coast of Canada that provided healing arts programming and education for kids and adults. —

Candace Hansen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024 For example, Fiserv Forum workers can also work at Riverside Theater. —

Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for work at