working in

verb

present participle of work in
1
as in inserting
to put among or between others I think that we can work in one more interview in the afternoon lineup

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2
as in infiltrating
to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way managed to work in several references to baseball in his paper on the merits of teamwork

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Recent Examples of working in These were actually comments I was frequently subjected to while still working in a hospital setting. — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 The sensational international rescue of the famously sentient creatures, replete with colossal cargo planes, huge crates and Shedd staffers working in the dead of night to transport and care for the whales, must have looked made for social media. — Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026 Was working in the feature-length format freeing or more challenging? — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026 Often referred to as the Nobel Prize of the Arts, the Praemium Imperiale recognizes exemplary achievements by artists around the world working in painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theater and film. — News Desk, Artforum, 8 Sep. 2026 This is your month, so don’t waste time overthinking when the cosmos is working in your favor. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 Adenot now has spent 19 hours and 42 minutes working in the vacuum of space. — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Vice president of player personnel Will McClay is in his 25th season working in the Dallas Cowboys’ personnel department. — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 However, in my experience working in AI development, these algorithms lack engineering reasoning and often fail to calculate long-term architectural dynamics. — Ihor Hamal, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for working in
  1. inserting
  2. infiltrating
  3. introducing
  4. sneaking
  5. slipping
  6. winding
Verb
  • Delta Force snipers Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart both earned the Medal of Honor for inserting into Mike Durant's crash site and fighting to the bitter and bloody end.
    — David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The resolution does not specify a schedule for inserting discrete one-hour corrections.
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of inserting
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  • The show revolved around Crockett and Tubbs, two undercover detectives infiltrating South Florida’s criminal underworld.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Plus, even if a company isn’t intentionally using your data to train their models, one of their many agents could always go rogue, infiltrating company data and hoovering up individual users’ conversations with their chatbots.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026
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  • Creality is also introducing the ability to mix nozzle diameters within a single job.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Some might think introducing another layer of accountability would stifle innovation.
    — Giorgos Tsetis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of introducing
Verb
  • Kids made good accomplices, tasked with sneaking off on a hunt for the bill.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • At 15, Mariana de Miguel was already sneaking into Mexico City’s nightlife with a fake ID, saving money to see the bands that shaped her imagination.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of sneaking
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  • But a few months later, at her 18-month appointment, the standard graph that plotted a child’s weight against their age showed her weight slipping off the curve.
    — Raj Panjabi, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
  • If one hook isn’t enough to keep the bag from slipping, place another one on the opposite side.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of slipping
Verb
  • On winding roads, its model-specific suspension tuning and focus on weight reduction translate into exceptional body control at speed without becoming brittle or overly rigid in slower, more technical sections.
    — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The tiny artist village of Grožnjan is right down the road, and the ancient hilltop town of Motovun with narrow, winding streets just beyond that.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of winding

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“Working in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20in. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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