How to Use work-around in a Sentence

work-around

noun

• Luckily Spaniards came up with the best work-around—and it’s called tortilla vaga.
  — Katie Button, Bon Appétit, 12 Sep. 2023
• The change is a work-around for a piece of hardware that's become intolerably glitchy.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 4 June 2024
• Danielle had discovered a work-around and wanted to share it with Miranda.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• The council also came up with another work-around to the impending state ban on no-turn-on-reds in Indianapolis.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2023
• The deal was expected to be a work-around on the deed restrictions because the corporation is a public entity.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 10 May 2023
• However, many work-arounds have been developed so that consumers can still reap all the benefits of these fruits without the unpleasant taste.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 June 2023
• Watch this space: There has been speculation that Biden could find a constitutional work-around if a divided Congress can’t come to terms.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 8 May 2023
• So far, his increasingly frustrated partners have found work-arounds.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
• Of course, state prosecutors don’t enforce federal laws, but these attorneys general had a work-around.
  — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• The arrangement was a highly unusual work-around; by law, members of Ways and Means cannot share citizens’ tax information with anyone outside the committee.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• That probably explains why liberals lately have been content to wage war with the court using political rhetoric or strategic policy work-arounds, allowing the public’s increasingly low esteem for the Supreme Court speak for itself.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• Currently, Tennessee Oncology’s pharmacy has devised a complicated work-around to comply with the Stark regulation by sending daily shipments of drug to the 36 various clinic sites around the state.
  — Samyukta Mullangi, STAT, 1 Mar. 2024
• Users pioneer emergent behaviors; hack together work-arounds, many of which lead to new features; give platforms their cultural relevance; and provide the steady flood of engagement that Silicon Valley leaders can monetize.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
• Mandate and style worked together to make risers proliferate, a development that was not considered discriminatory as long as buildings provided work-arounds.
  — Curbed, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024