How to Use workup in a Sentence

workup

1 of 2 noun
  • Hiller flew out to Santa Rosa to get a detailed workup on the left tackle.
    Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2020
  • On his heart care: Knight: The workup of his cardiac is ongoing.
    USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • How many of the 20% of breast cancers are going to be in that one of five women who elect to not get the further workup?
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 17 Apr. 2023
  • After a medical workup, the dogs are placed in foster homes.
    Meg Dunn, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • To see if early heart disease may be a factor in your ED, Bankstein suggests a full workup at the doctor.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Doctors in starched white coats walk the hallways at a clip, darting to and from consultations and workups with clients.
    Jessica Chia, Allure, 25 Dec. 2019
  • After a 20-minute workup, the buck was injected with a reversal drug.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The severity of the initial illness helps determine what the cardiac workup will be.
    Giana Han, al, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The nightmares awoke her from sleep with acute chest pain, necessitating a cardiac workup.
    Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
  • People with these kinds of symptoms, Waxman said, need to come in for an immediate workup, even if most will not turn out to be heart attacks.
    Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Eight hours later, he was carried out of the building on a blanket, finally breaking free of its walls, to get a full medical workup.
    Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • Any athlete testing positive must go through a full cardiac workup before they are cleared.
    oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
  • But most of the time people will get better on their own, without intervention or extensive workup.
    Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Further workup revealed the issue: Aliyah had new-onset diabetes.
    Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Over three to four hours, these people went through an exhaustive medical workup by a variety of specialists.
    Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 30 June 2021
  • The rest of the infectious disease workup, including testing for malaria, was negative.
    Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2020
  • As part of the standard child abuse workup, Petska ordered a slew of additional tests, including full body X-rays and labs to screen for bleeding disorders that could lead to easy bruising.
    NBC News, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Don did all the psychological workup for gender reassignment during that time, working out of our house.
    Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • And in contrast to competing medical workups that pitch whole genome sequencing, Q Bio decided to analyze a panel of just 147 genes.
    Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 20 Feb. 2020
  • This slow-going approach wasn’t my preference, but my original plan—to admit him to the hospital and pursue an aggressive workup—had been vetoed by the patient.
    Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2010
  • While these kinds of examples are dramatic, the reality is that most kids don’t need an extremely-rapid genetic workup.
    Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Some health-care professionals worry that mindfulness is being pushed as a way of dealing with chronic pain in lieu of medical workups to find the underlying cause.
    Michelle Cortez | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • Each dog is given a physical workup including blood work to ensure there are no underlying health issues.
    Fox News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Colleagues then took the kittens a short distance away and did a workup — which involves a physical exam, where body measurements are recorded, and attaching an ear tag — before the mother returned.
    Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The remarks that follow are a glimpse at a negotiator’s ongoing notebook, not an authoritative workup on the topic.
    Jack Nasher, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Instead, the process could result in a lot of worry for asymptomatic patients and force the patient and doctor to undergo more workups without yielding anything significant.
    Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • This research suggests that doctors should do genetic workups in puzzling cases of serious infection, Meyts says.
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
  • The workup to make these diagnoses accurately is complicated and time-intensive.
    Jason Karlawish, STAT, 16 June 2023
  • To ignore someone who knows a patient's history, wishes, past workups, medicine failures and overall status is truly not optimal medical care.
    Andy Lazris, Columbia Flier, 31 Aug. 2017
  • A full diagnostic workup revealed nothing, so genetics experts in Boston and the Bigelows’ hometown of Portland, Maine, recommended sequencing all of her genes.
    Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
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work up

2 of 2 verb
  • Start at the sternum and work up near the base of the neck.
    Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Start at the bottom, in the center, and work up and out.
    New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The plan was to work up to the big one, the Bay Bridge, three to five years after that.
    Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2020
  • The two kept in touch on Facebook, and O’Rourke worked up the courage to ask her out.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
  • Start the blender on low and work up to medium-high speed, adding the canola oil in a stream.
    Alexandra Hall, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • The brand claims these can work up to 10 hours or more when fully charged.
    Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The film has been non-stop for years, and the team worked up until the last minute to perfect it.
    Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • Can any of us work up the energy to care or change course?
    Nicole Chung, Time, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Noel and Thomas have said that staffing shortages have forced guards to work up to 18-hour shifts.
    Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Do the famous Bondi to Coogee coastal walk and work up a sweat; then dive in to cool off.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 9 July 2019
  • The next morning, work up a sweat by hiking in Will Rogers State Park.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Such a beautiful day to play outside and work up a sweat with the help of this mate !!!
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Start from the ends and work up towards the roots: This will keep the pulling and tugging to a minimum.
    Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 13 June 2024
  • My tall phlox got a brown dieback starting at the bottom and working up the stalk to the flower.
    Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Begin with 20 seconds per leg and work up to one minute.
    Jen Murphy, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2020
  • To see the view without working up a sweat, the S10 train from Zurich’s main station will take you most of the way up.
    Noele Illien, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But Fitzgerald wasn't the one who got the most worked up about the situation.
    Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
  • Slowly, the team works up to all six planes and begins flying closer to the ground.
    William Langhorne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2019
  • Impressed by the latter, Franklin asked him to work up a film treatment.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
  • There’s even a rowing machine tucked in the ADU, for when the desire to work up a sweat arises.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The kids would eat pancakes and drink hot chocolate in his presence and work up their courage.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2023
  • One young man is trying to work up his nerve; the other is afraid of making a wrong move.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • In this video, off the 2016 album Life of Pablo, Teyana Taylor is feeling the beat while working up quite the sweat in the gym.
    Nicole Demarco and Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Peter Gallagher had to work up the courage to ask out his now-wife Paula Harwood.
    Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • Going for a hygge style in your home but can't work up the courage to utter the term to your designer?
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 22 July 2019
  • There may be hints in the plot description that point to your tear ducts getting all worked up.
    Chris Bellamy and Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 10 May 2024
  • Start with lower weights so that you can get used to the position, then work up from there.
    Kirk Charles, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
  • Benton got some work up the depth chart during camp and the group and has a chance to make at a thin position.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The pad works up to 33% times faster than your usual, go-to chargers and keeps things safe and organized.
    Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Apply it after your cleanser every- other day at first, working up to twice a day as your skin gets used to it.
    Sarah Felbin, SELF, 9 Oct. 2024

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