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• The three didn't see any sign of a hunter in the woods, but quickly set to work trying to stop the blood flowing from the horse's leg.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2020
• Cody set to work and found us a couple landowner tags on a big ranch north of the town of Burlington.
  — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 10 Mar. 2021
• Cutler set to work, unaware of the trove of tapes and letters amassed by Belushi Pisano and Colby.
  — Stuart Miller, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• Cichy, who played linebacker, is set to work with offense.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2022
• Umpire Joe West is set to work behind the plate in the NL wild-card game as his long, colorful career nears an end.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 6 Oct. 2021
• The Boulevard Collective is set to work in a similar way.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2022
• Yet another control group of bacteria set to work on basalt on Earth.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
• Jackson is set to work on his own label, Team Wang, with another agency.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 11 Jan. 2021
• Mammoth Lakes thrown into chaos by snowfall Moments later, Romero, 30, and her colleagues set to work.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• After graduating from Cambridge, Rushdie moved to London and set to work as a writer.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• After discovering wires with live current sprouting from the ground outside the northwest corner of the building, the savvy 24-year-old set to work: black wire to black, white wire to white.
  — Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2022
• With only a rough sense of the game’s vibe based on these images, plus a handful of area descriptions in a Google Doc, Zauner immediately set to work.
  — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 14 Oct. 2021
• Some of those who remained set to work scrutinizing decades-old assumptions.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• Together the three of them set to work documenting thousands of abusive screenshots, hundreds of awful messages, dozens of death threats.
  — Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
• And so Gauthier set to work, finessing his signature style, a blend of French gastronomy and Asian flavors.
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• More on the Urus With the performance attitude firmly locked in place, the engineers set to work optimizing the chassis to suit aggressive pavement work and little else.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 1 May 2023
• Emergency crews have set to work digging out mud, clearing debris and patching roadway, while residents wring out their homes and belongings, hoping the next storms will spare them.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2023
• Weeks after taking office in 2014, Mr. de Blasio set to work trying to enact universal prekindergarten.
  — Michael Gold, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Around this time, multiple teams set to work on computer simulations to test the D6 hypothesis.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• The officers set to work shifting through paperwork, looking for reports of missing and endangered children.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 17 Apr. 2022
• These industries should be set to work building a larger military, but one that is different in its balance of forces and capabilities.
  — Jerry Hendrix, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Luckily, photographer Malcolm Varon lived nearby—and set to work.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
• The enslaved laborers were set to work hauling goods over land across the isthmus as Spain sought to develop a shortcut to Peru in their race to beat Portugal in colonizing the Americas.
  — Shannon Sims, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2022
• Then Kumbani set to work searching for mention of these sound tools in the archaeological record and looking for artifacts that physically resembled the ones Kirby detailed.
  — Sarah Wild, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2020
• Then the Crew-5 astronauts will set to work conducting spacewalks, during which astronauts exit the ISS, to maintain the space station’s exterior, as well as performing more than 200 science experiments.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• The next administration should set to work restoring the pandemic-response unit that once existed under the National Security Council.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020
• Still, Sheppard set to work immediately tweaking Lehrer’s unfinished canvas.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024