“Edward Churchill still attended to his work ⟳ in a hopeless mechanical manner like ⟳ a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew’s cap and bells.”

“He hasn’t come ⟳ home yet; he’s still at work ⟳.”

“I want ⟳ to go to the reunion concert, but I'm not sure if my work ⟳ will give ⟳ me the time off.”

“In trials of a Martin furnace in a steel work ⟳ at Remscheiden, Germany, a lining of zirconia was found in good condition after […]”

“Holding a brick over your head is hard work ⟳. It takes a lot of work ⟳ to write ⟳ a dictionary.”

“We know ⟳ what we must do. Let's go to work ⟳.”

“We don't have ⟳ much time. Let's get ⟳ to work ⟳ piling up those sandbags.”

“The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like ⟳ a bat he chose the night hours for his work ⟳ of rapine; like ⟳ a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like ⟳ a bat he never showed himself to the face ⟳ of the day.”

“There's lots of work ⟳ waiting for me at the office.”

“has had a lot of work ⟳ done”

“Luckily, our eyes have ⟳ grown accustomed after decades of Botox, fillers and extreme “work ⟳” going mainstream, so we don’t notice ⟳ the weirdness and read ⟳ it instead as maximum hotness. Thank ⟳ you, progress ⟳!”

“has been putting in work ⟳”

“Work ⟳ is done against friction to drag ⟳ a bag along the ground.”

“Turbines have ⟳ been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name ⟳ comes from the Latin turbo, meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform ⟳ useful work ⟳.”

“There's a lot of guesswork involved.”

“We've got some paperwork to do before we can get ⟳ started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work ⟳.”

“It is a work ⟳ of art.”

“the poetic works of Alexander Pope”

“To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:”

“The haſty multitude / Admiring enter'd, and the work ⟳ ſome praiſe / And ſome the Architect:”

““[…] We are engaged in a great work ⟳, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford ⟳ the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?[…]””

“William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.”

“Tell ⟳ me you're using clean ⟳ works at least.”

“He gave me a sour look ⟳. “All right is it? Well, you shoot ⟳ some then.” I cooked up a grain and got out my works ready to take ⟳ the shot.”

“If you buy ⟳ new works, clean ⟳ them before using them. If you share ⟳ works, clean ⟳ them before you or the next person uses them. Blood may be in your works even if you can't see ⟳ it. Clean ⟳ your works either with rubbing alcohol (available in drugstores), a household bleach solution (three tablespoons of bleach in a cup of water), or boiling water.”

“While in San Francisco, where the AIDS crisis was particularly devastating, they saw ⟳ numerous public awareness signs reading “Bleach Your Works” posted around the city, urging IV drug users to clean ⟳ their needles with bleach to help ⟳ staunch the spread ⟳ of the disease.”

“All told, werk is about creativity, virtuosity, and a certain kind of mastery.”

“If the voice coming out of my body is legibly male, it complicates my presence. The work ⟳ starts to approach ⟳ that mysterious state of werq.”

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